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01 November 1946 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have observed no less than twenty-three instances between February 27th and March 7th, 1946, where one Rook (Corvus f. frugUegus) was either in or standing upon t h e nest with two attendant Rooks perched close together a t some twelve t o ...

Reviews

01 November 1946 Comments Reviews Birds in Colour. By Walter Higham. (Collins, 1945). Price 25s. T H I S book comes as something of a shock to those who are acquainted with the excellence of the colour rendering in Mr. Higham's cinematograph films. The gap between colour transparencies an...

Notes

01 November 1946 Comments Notes RAVEN NESTING IN A ROOKERY, ON March loth, 1946, I flushed a Raven (Corvus c. cor ax) from a nest at the top of a tall pine in a conifer wood about five miles from Cardiff. In view of previous records of this species nesting in rookeries (antea, Vol. xxx...

Variations in clutch size and some nesting success data

01 November 1946 Comments Main paper SOME time ago Mr. David Lack remarked to me that during the earlier months of the season birds tended to lay smaller clutches than in the later months. My observations in Devonshire show the following results.Hence C/3 is not uncommon in the early part of...

Notes on nest-sites of the Oyster-catcher and the Long-Eared Owl as a hole breeder

01 November 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 44-46). THE OYSTER-CATCHER. THE Oyster-catcher (Hcematopus ostralegus) is a bird that sometimes uses strange nesting-places. On the isle of Texel a pair bred from 1917-1934 on the thatched roof of a barn as stated by Drijver (Texel, ket vogdeiland...

Roosting Habits of the Irish Coal-Tit, with some Observations on other Habits

01 November 1946 Comments Main paper (Plate 43). THE observation in The Handbook, Vol. i, p, 256, stating that data on normal roosting habits of the Coal-Tit were scanty, led me to pay particular attention to this subject. My observations are confined to the Irish Coal-Tit (Parus ater hibemi...

Notes on some Monmouthshire and East Glamorgan Birds, 1943-1945

01 November 1946 Comments Main paper notes are intended to follow up those published by L. Hugh Doncaster and myself in Volume xxxvi, pp. 198-199, which covered the years 1941-1942, and dealt mainly with the Vale of Ewyas, in the extreme north of Monmouthshire, and the valley of the Soar, a ...

Letter

01 July 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,---The statement (antea, p. 58) of Fr. Haverschmidt t h a t " I t seems that field observations are inadequate on this point, at least in Great Britain " is an injustice to British ornithology and ornithologists. As far back as 1896 there is evidence...

Notes

01 July 1946 Comments Notes Ox February 22nd, 1946, I received word from David Reid that a pair of Ravens {Corvus c. corax) were building a nest in a small Ayrshire heronry. I visited the site two days later and the nest, which could be distinguished from the Herons' by the presenc...

Report of the Black Redstart inquiry for 1945

01 July 1946 Comments Main paper THIS is the second annual interim Report of the Black Redstart Inquiry, and deals with the breeding status of the Black Redstart {Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) in the British Isles in 1945, together with certain breeding records for former years t...

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Letter

Reviews

Notes

Variations in clutch size and some nesting success data

Notes on nest-sites of the Oyster-catcher and the Long-Eared Owl as a hole breeder

Roosting Habits of the Irish Coal-Tit, with some Observations on other Habits

Notes on some Monmouthshire and East Glamorgan Birds, 1943-1945

Letter

Notes

Report of the Black Redstart inquiry for 1945

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