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01 March 1936 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I was very interested in Mr. H . G. Alexander's letter on t h e movements of sea birds a t Dungeness (antea, pp. 298-9), because I watched a considerable movement of divers there on January 25th, 1936. I first reached t h e coast a t Camber, ...

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01 March 1936 Comments Reviews A Pocket-Book of British Birds. Edited by Charles A. Hall, F.R.M.S. (A. & C. Black). 63 coloured Plates. 5s. net. T H E title of this book is very misleading as one would expect to find in such a book a description or a t least some mention of all the com...

Notes

01 March 1936 Comments Notes IN view of the recent notes concerning the influx of Jays into Hampshire during the autumn of 1935, it may be of interest to report that in the Layer Marney district--between Col chester and Maldon, Essex--they have been unusually scarce this winter (Oct...

Starlings Fighting for Nesting Sites

01 March 1936 Comments Main paper SOME account of two nesting-site combats between Starlings (Sturnus v. vulgaris) may be of interest. The first of these took place on May 4th, 1935, the other on January 26th, 1936. My Starling box has two compartments, one facing south, the other north. ...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 March 1936 Comments Main paper Leswalt (Wigtown), 5.3.35, b y Where ringed 2.11.35, b y J. Law. ringer. Ditto 5-3-35 D u n r a g i t ( W i g t o w n ) , 28.12.35, b y G. Clutterbuck. Pembroke, 22.2.35, Greenslade. Ditto by S. Sanczursk, Central Russia, 56° 57'N., 47 0 15'E. Odense, F...

Habits of the Rook: Some notes on an Essex Rookery

01 March 1936 Comments Main paper FOR over twelve years I have kept regular notes on the habits of Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) at a rookery near my home in Essex. A considerable amount of information has been obtained during this period, but the following notes refer only to certain aspe...

Report of an Investigation of the Food of Captive Little Owls

01 March 1936 Comments Main paper A SERIES of experiments was arranged in the autumn of 1935 by the British Trust for Ornithology, to be carried out at the London Zoo with the collaboration of Mr. D. Seth-Smith, to whom warm thanks are due for his assistance. The primary object of the exp...

Review

01 February 1936 Comments Reviews A Vertebrate Fauna of Forth. By Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul and Evelyn V. Baxter, (Oliver & Boyd). Plates and Map. 25s, net. IN 1887, Harvie-Brown arid Buckley, in A Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, etc., began a series of Scottish faunistic works divided into...

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01 February 1936 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have studied with considerable interest, in the December issue, Mr. H. G. Alexander's article and chart on the song-periods ·of birds, and all the more so as t h e songs and notes of birds have been an engrossing study with me (in Cheshire...

Notes

01 February 1936 Comments Notes ON January 17th, 1936, the Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and others launched a Viscount Grey Memorial Appeal, one of whose objects is to develop " the existing scheme of research main...

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Starlings Fighting for Nesting Sites

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Report of an Investigation of the Food of Captive Little Owls

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