Notes

01 November 1954
Comments Notes known that the Heron {Ardea cinerea) frequently eats eels, but there are probably few photographs in existence showing - the nestling's capacity to swallow them. The photograph reproduced on plate 65 was taken at Noorden, Holland, on May 1st, iqj4,. when ...
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Letters

01 June 1935
Comments Letters SIRS,--May I ask for your kind help and t h a t of your readers in regard to a problem which has arisen in the course of some investigations into the worship of bird-gods in ancient times in Europe. The Woodpecker, as Aristophanes informs us in a well-kno...
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Reviews

01 June 1935
Comments Reviews A History of the Birds of Middlesex. By William E. Glegg, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U, Witherby. 18s. I T was with Hartiog's Birds of Middlesex, published in 1866, t h a t modern county ornithologies began, and the lapse of nearly seventy years, during which the face...
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