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01 August 1946 Comments Letters --The habit, referred to by several contributors to this and the previous volume T f this journal (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300, 360, Vol. > xxxix, pp. 159,160) in which parent birds of many species probe into the nest lining beneath the young, has b...

Review

01 August 1946 Comments Reviews Glossarium Europce Avium. By Harriet I. J0rgensen and Cecil I. Blackburne. · Einar Mimksgaard, Copenhagen, 1941. T H I S invaluable little book, prepared before the war and published in Copenhagen in 1941, has as yet had little' opportunity of demonstrat...

Notes

01 August 1946 Comments Notes As there is no mention in The Handbook of British Birds of a female Greenfinch (Chloris ch. chloris) singing, the following may be worthy of note. 1 have in my garden near Crawley, Sussex, a nest of this species in a cypress-tree, which hatched on May 21...

The Breeding of Marsh and Montagu's Harriers in North Wales in 1945

01 August 1946 Comments Main paper IN 1945 the first recorded breeding of Marsh-Harriers (Circus ce. aruginosus) in recent years outside East Anglia took place in N. Wales, in which region the last known cases of nesting of this species were in Merionethshire in 1869 and 1877 (Forrest, 190...

Notes on the spring Territory of the Blackbird

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper study was made on the Dartington Hall estate, South Devon, in 1940, when the abnormal cold weather in late January and early February made possible the trapping and colour-ringing of an unusually large number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. tnerula). Unfortunate...

Some breeding-habits of the Black-winged Stilt

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus k. himantopus) were made in the Camargue at the end of April and early May, 1937. For many reasons I was unable to observe the full breeding cycle. These notes therefore refer only to the bi...

Abstracts

01 August 1941 Comments Reviews Wuczeticz (1939). " Seasonal distribution and migration of ducks (subiam. Anatina) on the base of bird-ringing in the U.S.S.R. III. The Gadwall--Anas strepera L.; the Shoveler--Spatula clypeata (L.) ; the Wigeon--Mar tea penelope (L.)." Moscow (Russian a...

Notes

01 August 1941 Comments Notes IN 1939, as already recorded in British Birds, Vol. xxxiii, p. 194, a male Hooded Crow (Corvus c. comix) and a female Carrion-Crow (C. c. cowrie) nested in Co. Dublin and successfully reared their young. In 1940, presumably the same pair again nested in ...

Display in Blackbirds

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper display in Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula) has been so rarely observed or recorded that a brief description of a display I had the good fortune to witness this spring may prove of interest. Chancing to look out from the window of a house in a Sussex garden ...

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Letters

Review

Notes

The Breeding of Marsh and Montagu's Harriers in North Wales in 1945

Notes on the spring Territory of the Blackbird

Some breeding-habits of the Black-winged Stilt

Abstracts

Notes

Display in Blackbirds

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