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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Notes

01 August 1931
Comments Notes ON June 2nd, 1931, I was able to identify an Ortolan Bunting (Emberiza hortulana) on Skokholm. As it was in an exhausted state I was able to examine it from within three yards, as it rested in a niche of my garden wall. The small, reddisri bill was unmis...
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