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01 May 1994 Comments Other February's breast-banded passerine (plate 33) was named as Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris (66%), Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra (21%), Bimaculated Lark M. bimaculata (11%) and Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla (2%), It was a juvenile Ho...
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Seventy-five years agoÉ

01 December 1990 Comments Other 'FECUNDITY OF THE HOUSE-SPARROW. LAST year I contributed some observations (Brit. Birds, VIII., p. 114) showing the amazing fecundity of certain pairs of House-Sparrows (Passer d. domesticus) occupying (much to my disgust) a number of nesting-boxes I p...
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