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Notes on the spring Territory of the Blackbird

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper study was made on the Dartington Hall estate, South Devon, in 1940, when the abnormal cold weather in late January and early February made possible the trapping and colour-ringing of an unusually large number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. tnerula). Unfortunate...

Some breeding-habits of the Black-winged Stilt

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus k. himantopus) were made in the Camargue at the end of April and early May, 1937. For many reasons I was unable to observe the full breeding cycle. These notes therefore refer only to the bi...

Abstracts

01 August 1941 Comments Reviews Wuczeticz (1939). " Seasonal distribution and migration of ducks (subiam. Anatina) on the base of bird-ringing in the U.S.S.R. III. The Gadwall--Anas strepera L.; the Shoveler--Spatula clypeata (L.) ; the Wigeon--Mar tea penelope (L.)." Moscow (Russian a...

Notes

01 August 1941 Comments Notes IN 1939, as already recorded in British Birds, Vol. xxxiii, p. 194, a male Hooded Crow (Corvus c. comix) and a female Carrion-Crow (C. c. cowrie) nested in Co. Dublin and successfully reared their young. In 1940, presumably the same pair again nested in ...

Display in Blackbirds

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper display in Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula) has been so rarely observed or recorded that a brief description of a display I had the good fortune to witness this spring may prove of interest. Chancing to look out from the window of a house in a Sussex garden ...

Notes

01 June 1938 Comments Notes As I have not been able to find any record of the HouseSparrow (Passer A. domesticus) excavating a nesting hole in rotten wood, such an occurrence seems to be worth recording. Both the cock and the hen excavated, both birds sometimes being in the confine...

Notes on the Land-Rail

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper IN Cumberland the Land-Rail (Crex crex) nests commonly in the clover-hay and meadow-hay fields ; sometimes in young plantations where the trees have not yet smothered the grass, and occasionally in the waste land of small bushes and rough grass about coun...

Some observations on the breeding-habits of birds

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper THE following data regarding some of our commoner birds were obtained in mid-Gloucestershire during the years 1930-33. The district consisted of fields divided by hedges and stone walls, and was mainly a grazing one, but there was some arable land and inc...

The spring migration of the Swallow over Europe

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper (Plate I.) THE accompanying map, showing the isochronal lines for the northward movement of the Swallow (Himndo r. rustica) oyer Europe in spring, is the first of a small series of species studies, which it is proposed to make on roughly the same lines. T...

Additions and Alterations to the British list

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper THE following changes appearing in Volume I. of the Handbook of British Birds have not previously been notified in these pages and as the reasons are fully explained in the Handbook it is not necessary to repeat them here.CORVUS for the Jackdaws instead o...

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Notes on the spring Territory of the Blackbird

Some breeding-habits of the Black-winged Stilt

Abstracts

Notes

Display in Blackbirds

Notes

Notes on the Land-Rail

Some observations on the breeding-habits of birds

The spring migration of the Swallow over Europe

Additions and Alterations to the British list

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