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01 September 1947 Comments Notes ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking some...

Report of the bird-ringing committee

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper THIS is the tenth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The composition of the Committee remains the same...

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper the co-operation of 64 observers, it has been possible to provide evidence of the breeding of at least ten pairs of Black Redstarts (Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) in England in 1946. A further 13 pairs or singing males occupied territories, but wi...

Notes on Welsh Choughs

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper As THE Chough (Pyrrhocorax p. pyrrhocorax) is one of our lesserknown species, the following observations might be of interest as furnishing corroboration of the excellent account of this species given in The Handbook. The notes are the result of observati...

Some cases of abnormal flight of birds

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper instances of abnormal flight in birds, which I have observed, open up an interesting subject for speculation. The collection of further data may throw light upon the reasons. Probably in many cases the effect of air currents, pockets and lifts may be assu...

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THE "BRITISH BIRDS "MARKING SCHEME" PROGRESS FOR 1931

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NOTES ON THE TREE-SPARROW

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THE BREEDING-HABITS OF THE CORN-BUNTING (AS OBSERVED IN SUSSEX), WITH SOME NOTES ON ITS SONG, CRIES AND GENERAL DEPORTMENT

01 October 1932 Comments ...

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01 March 1932 Comments Notes SOME time ago there was discussion in British Birds on the habit of the male Hedge-Sparrow pecking at the cloaca of the female during courtship display. I have not seen reference to this habit with the House-Sparrow (Passer d. domesticus) and the followi...

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Report of the bird-ringing committee

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

Notes on Welsh Choughs

Some cases of abnormal flight of birds

NOTES

THE "BRITISH BIRDS "MARKING SCHEME" PROGRESS FOR 1931

NOTES ON THE TREE-SPARROW

THE BREEDING-HABITS OF THE CORN-BUNTING (AS OBSERVED IN SUSSEX), WITH SOME NOTES ON ITS SONG, CRIES AND GENERAL DEPORTMENT

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