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Notes

01 October 1952 Comments Notes Magpies and Jays eating waspsStarling imitating telephone bellGreenfinch imitating RedstartChaffinch building in deserted Song Thrush's nest of the same seasonFly-catching by buntingsTawny Pipit in Essex...

Observations on the collection and burial of acorns by Jays in Hainault Forest

01 October 1952 Comments Main paper The Handbook states that the Jay (Gamdus glandarius) shares with several other Corvi&ee the habit of burying- surplus food. During the autumn of 1951, observations were made in Hainault Forest, in Essex, on the intensity of this habit with acorns. Althoug...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLIV. The Gull-billed Tern

01 October 1952 Comments Main paper (Plate 76). T H E photographs published this month form an appropriate accompaniment to the paper by G. A. Pyman and Major-General C. B. Wainwright on the first breeding in Britain of the Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica), an almost cosmopolitan bi...

On the Gull-billed Terns at "De Beer " near Hook-of-Holland in 1949

01 October 1952 Comments Main paper O N May 29th, 1949, A. M. van den Oord and the author found a nest with two eggs of the Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica) on the beach of " D e B e e r " near Hook-of-Holland. On June 19th another nest was found with two nestlings, and a third nest...

The breeding of the Gull-billed Tern in Essex

01 October 1952 Comments Main paper The attractiveness to birds of the comparatively recently formed Abberton Reservoir, three miles south of Colchester in Essex, has already been described by Dr. J. W . Campbell (antea, vol. xl, p p . 78-82). This reservoir lies some i j miles north of the...

Review

01 March 1941 Comments Reviews Birds of the Grey Wind. By Edward A, Armstrong (Oxford University Press). Illustrated. 12s. 6d. net. THE title of this book and its unusual medley of poetry, history and legend may well hide the fact that also within its pages are to be found some excelle...

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