Letter

01 May 1935
Comments Letters SIRS,--A sample count of Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps c. cristatus) is to be taken during the coming summer under the auspices of the British Trust for Ornithology. The main object of the count is to ascertain as far as possible what effect the past two...
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Letters

01 February 1935
Comments Letters SIRS,--May I say something on this vexed subject ? I speak of those territorial species whose young depend upon insects for food. Three sets of facts seem connected :-- (i) T h a t in a cold and wet breeding season we find infertile eggs, chicks dead in t...
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Letters

01 January 1935
Comments Letters SIRS,--1 read with interest Mr. Rickman's note regarding the nesting oi the Pintail in Dumbartonshire (antea, p, 206). For many years I have kept and bred Pintail at Tullichewan, which is only about two or three miles from the spot where Mr. Rickman found...
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