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Identity of Specialized Feeding-Habits of the Turnstone and the Oyster-Catcher

01 July 1940 Comments Main paper THE habit of the Turnstone (Strepsilas i. interpres) of overturning jetsam is so well known that it is apt to be overlooked that the bird has other and even more interesting feeding habits. The present communication refers to the way in which the Turnston...

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01 January 1938 Comments Notes As there is apparently no previous record for the Outer Hebrides, it may be of interest to report that a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) was killed in North Uist on October 27th, 1937, and that I saw another at Newton Lodge, North Uist, on No...

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01 December 1934 Comments Notes DURING the last week in May, 1934, a pair of Spotted Flycatchers (Muscicapa s. striata) built a nest in a cleft of a climbing rose tree growing against the wall of our house in Norfolk. On May 31st this nest contained four eggs, which were taken. On June...

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01 September 1933 Comments Notes RAYMOND PHILIPSON'S paper on Rooks and their roosts in South Northumberland (antea, p. 66) prompts me to forward some notes I made in the same area nearly thirty years ago. From 1904 to 1906 I lived on the west side of Newcastle. Rooks were notable birds...

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01 July 1931 Comments Notes ON May 1st, 1931, in an open hole in a limb of a great ash tree at Bamston Lodge, Essex, I found a Jackdaw (Colceus m. spermologus) sitting on four eggs so much mud-daubed that they were very inconspicuous on the nest material. I had not time to investig...

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01 April 1930 Comments Notes I T may be of interest to record that on the morning of March 9th, 1930, near Addington, Surrey, I watched a hen Whinchat {Saxicola r. rubetra) for about five minutes. It was perched on a post at the side of a lane, and allowed me to approach to within t...