Letters

01 October 1958
Comments Letters EGGS D I S A P P E A R I N G F R O M P E R E G R I N E E Y R I E S S I R S , -- T h e paper by D r . D . A. Ratcliffe on " B r o k e n eggs in Peregrine eyries" (antea, pp. 23-29) has greatly interested me, as it seems to throw considerable light on past ...
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Notes

01 October 1958
Comments Notes Killdeer in Cornwall.--On 26th December 1957, a bird was accidently shot during a snipe shoot in a small marsh on the edge of Trembleath W o o d , St. Columb Major, near Newquay, Cornwall. It was sent to the British Museum (Natural History) where it was f...
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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...
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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...
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