Letter

01 September 1943 Comments Letters SIRS --It was with very great interest t h a t I read the articles on incubation in the June and July numbers by Col. Ryves and Mr. Tucker. From reading these articles I realised t h a t I must have had a quite unique experience regarding incubation by th...
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Notes

01 September 1943 Comments Notes DURING the last year I have been able to pay regular visits to the Sewage Farm just outside the town of Bedford and amongst the many birds seen, the following seem worthy of note. I am grateful to Mr. B. O. Clifford and Mr. A. J. Swain for providing me wi...
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Nest-Site Selection by birds

01 September 1943 Comments Main paper T H E late F . C. R. Jourdain writing on " Our Present Knowledge of the Breeding-Biology of B i r d s " (antea, Vol. xxiv, p. 135) remarked : "Every detail of the life of the bird is important. For example most valuable and interesting light is thrown on ...
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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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Letters

01 September 1928 Comments Letters SIRS,---Of forty-three nests of the Mistle-Thnish (Turdus v. viscivorus) examined during t h e past eight years in various localities in Cumberland, two held clutches of five eggs each, three had three eggs each, the rest four. One five-egg clutch was fou...
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