Letter

01 December 1934
Comments Letters SIRS,--Messrs. H. Morrey Salmon and R. M. Lockley, in their paper on " The Grassholm Gannets--A Survey and a Census " (antea, Vol. X X V I I . , pp. 142-152) appear, in their historical survey of t h e colony, to have overlooked a paper dealing with the c...
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Letters

01 November 1934
Comments Letters SIRS,--In connection with Mr. Musselwhite's letter and t h e Editor's remarks under this heading (antea, p. 151), I may record t h a t a Blackbird (Tardus m. merula) hatched four young in 1934 in a nest on a branch of a cedar on m y lawn a t Cheddar, and ...
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Letters

01 October 1934
Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. R. L. Brown, in his interesting notes on the Kingfisher (antea, p. 83), reports a pair of birds having a clutch several days incubated when they had at the same time a brood in an adjacent nest. The experience especially interested me because t...
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Letters

01 September 1934
Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference to the extremely interesting article by Lieut.Col. and Mrs. B. H . Ryves on the breeding-habits of the Corn-Bunting as observed in north Cornwall (Vol. X X V I I I . , pp. 2-26) and Mr. John Walpole-Bond's detailed study of the Susse...
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Letters

01 January 1934
Comments Letters SIRS,--Dr. and Mr. Lack have ranked me as a principal accomplice of Mr. H. Eliot Howard in their indictment of the territory theory and its perpetrators. (" Territory Reviewed," antea, p p . 179-199.) May I say t h a t I am proud to stand in the dock by t...
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Letters

01 September 1931
Comments Letters SIRS, May I, in reference to the valuable contribution by Mr. Walpolc-Bond on the " Songs and Cries of the Nuthatch " in your August issue (pp. 70-r), offer mv notes on tile calls of the Hampshire Nuthatch and ask Mr. Walpolc-Bond whether his Sussex birds...
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Letters

01 August 1931
Comments Letters SIRS,--May I suggest that Mr. H. M. Nicholson has scarcely made a happy choice when using Mercator's Chart to illustrate his " Ornithological Transect of the North Atlantic " ? (antea, Vol. XXIV., p. 272). By elementary trigonometry it can readily be show...
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Letter

01 July 1931
Comments Letters C H A F F I N C H E S CAUGHT IN XEST-U1X1XG. To the Editors of BRITISH BiRfls. SIRS,--With reference to the notes on this subject(Vol. XXIV., pp. 103, 125 and 156) Surgeon-Lt.-Cdr. T. H u n t and Surgeon-Lt. F. A. Pearse brought me a hen Chaffinch (Fvingi...
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Letters

01 June 1931
Comments Letters SIRS,--Referring t o Mr. Riviere's Ornithological Report lor Norfolk for 1930 (antea, Vol. XXIV., pp. 306-318) m a y I be allowed t o make the following slight additions. SPRING MIGRATION.--As little has been recorded the following m a y be of interest. M...
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