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01 October 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to Mr. Masefield's note (antea, p . 270), fleas m a y generally b e found in T i t ' s nests in t h e winter, a n d during t h e first few warm days in spring m a y be seen waiting in numbers outside t h e hole ready to j u ...

Notes

01 October 1963 Comments Notes ON January 21st, 1914, I was shown a couple of very fine Pine-Grosbeaks (Pinicola e. enucleator) that had been, obtained the previous day at Brigbtling, Sussex. They were both males, and one was of a beautiful rosy colour and of a far more gaudy tint tha...

Obituary: The Late G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

01 October 1963 Comments Obituaries born 1871, B.A. Cambridge 1894 (first-class in the Natural Science Tripos in the same list with his friend Dr. E. A. Wilson), Major oth (Militia) Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, in which he served during the South African war, Hon. Captain in the Army, P.Z...

Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire

01 October 1963 Comments Main paper SINCE the appearance of the Rev, A. C. Smith's Birds of Wiltshire in 1887 many new county records have naturally occurred. I now propose to give the more interesting of those I have collected, some of which have heen published before, but many of which ar...

The Courtship of the Common Gull.

01 October 1963 Comments Main paper O N May 9th, 1913, I found a colony of about twenty pairs of Common Gulls (Larus c. camts) nesting on a small island in a freshwater loch in the Outer Hebrides. The islet was occupied also by about the same number of pairs of Black-headed Gulls (Larus rid...

Letters

01 September 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to t h e article on " The Breeding-habits of t h e Dartford Warbler," and t o t h e statement on page 218, I have never seen a Dartford Warbler's nest in England, a n d know nothing of their habits in this country. I n t h e...

Reviews

01 September 1963 Comments Reviews British Diving Ducks. By J. G. Millais, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Vol. II. Seventeen coloured and twenty-five uneoloured plates. Longmans. In two volumes, £12 12s. net. IN our last volume (pp. 365-70) we gave an extended notice of the fisst part of Mr. Mill...

Notes

01 September 1963 Comments Notes A YOUNG drake Gadwall {Anas strepera) was shot on J a n u a r y 14th, 1913, a t Stretton. I saw t w o K n o t s (Canutus canutus) on October 12th, 1913, a t Bellfields Reservoir. I watched t h e m for some time through powerful glasses, a n d when one fle...

Erythrism in the Eggs of British Birds.

01 September 1963 Comments Main paper ALTHOUGH many scattered notes on this subject may be found in the various ornithological journals, very little has hitherto been done to collect these separate records; and beyond a short note by Adolf Kricheldorff in the Zeitschrift fur Oologie, XIII., ...

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Letters

Notes

Obituary: The Late G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire

The Courtship of the Common Gull.

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Erythrism in the Eggs of British Birds.

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