Letter

01 December 1940 Comments Letters SIRS,--For some years past, Mr. Charles Oldham has regularly published observations on t h e midsummer movements of Swallows, House- and Sand-Martins and Swifts at t h e Tring and Elstree Reservoirs in t h e Transactions of the Herts Nat. Hist. Soc. An id...
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Some Notes on the Bittern

01 October 1940 Comments Main paper the last ten days of April, 1940, I was able, bycourtesy of Mr. Jim Vincent, to sit in a hide over a Bittern (Botaurus s. stellaris). The following notes refer only to points not made in The Handbook of British Birds. A visit for any purpose of the cock b...
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