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01 April 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,--Messrs. Wagstaffe and Williamson's paper (antea, Vol. xl, p p . 322-325), on t h e cabinet colour changes in bird skins, will be read b y all workers in systematic ornithology with great interest. That these changes occur is of course well known, a...

Notes

01 April 1948 Comments Notes IN a recent volume of British Birds (antea. Vol. xxxix, pp. 212 and 340) records are given of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) nesting in heronries. I should like to record that for several years up to 1942, a pair of Ravens nested in a circle of tall pines cont...

The incubation and fledging-periods of the Razorbill

01 April 1948 Comments Main paper THE incubation-period of the British Razorbill (Alca tarda britannica) does not appear to have been accurately recorded. The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. v, p. 146), quotes the incubation-period as "25 days in incubator (F. G. Paynter), 26-30 (O. A. J....

Bird life on Pett level floods, 1941-1943

01 April 1948 Comments Main paper {concluded from p. 70). 1942 {continued). On February 4th, while in a hide, well in the middle of the water, I identified seven Long-tailed Ducks. They came within a few yards of me and two of them were adult drakes, the first I had seen in Sussex. They w...

Further notes on Clutch and brood size in the Robin

01 April 1948 Comments Main paper THE following paper on the breeding biology of the Robin (Erithacus rubecula) is a sequel to that published earlier (Lack, 1946), knowledge of which is assumed. In addition to nesting records for 1946, a number of additional records were received for past...

REVIEWS: The London Naturalist. The Journal of the London Natural History Society. 1927; Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Vol. XII., Part iii., Dec. 1927

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LETTERS: NUMBER OF EGGS LAID BY MISTLE-THRUSH; AN AUTUMN HABIT OF THE ROOK

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THE OFFICE OF MASTER OF THE SWANS

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Reviews

01 September 1928 Comments Reviews The London Naturalist. The Journal of the London Natural History Society. 1927. London, 1928. 3s. T H I S issue contains, as is usual in the yearly reports of this active Society, a good deal of work on birds in and around London. Mr. A. Holte Macpherson ...

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The incubation and fledging-periods of the Razorbill

Bird life on Pett level floods, 1941-1943

Further notes on Clutch and brood size in the Robin

REVIEWS: The London Naturalist. The Journal of the London Natural History Society. 1927; Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Vol. XII., Part iii., Dec. 1927

LETTERS: NUMBER OF EGGS LAID BY MISTLE-THRUSH; AN AUTUMN HABIT OF THE ROOK

THE OFFICE OF MASTER OF THE SWANS

NOTES

Reviews

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