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01 May 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. N. D. Pullen, Mr. H. G. Hurrell and Miss N. C. Hicks (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300 and 360) have drawn attention t o an interesting problem of behaviour. I have observed t h e " digging " in the bottom of the nest, as described by the abov...

Notes

01 May 1946 Comments Notes DURING a continuation of observations on migration in the Trent Valley near Nottingham in 1945, the following species were noted, most of the records being the first for the county and therefore worthy of-record. ICTERINE WARBLER (Hippolais icterina),--A...

Some Remarks on Sex behaviour of Doves

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper The Handbook of British Birds' (Vol. v, p. 280) states on the authority of O. and M. Heinroth that the male Rock-Dove [Columba livid) feeds the female before coition. I think one may safely assume that the pairing ceremonials of the wild and domesticated ...

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. IV. The Marsh-Warbler

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 17-19). THE scarce and local Marsh-Warbler (Acrocephalus palustris) is only known to breed regularly in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Sussex and Kent. In some other counties, such as Oxfordshire, it appears to do so with fair...

Notes on the Breeding Biology of the Crested Lark

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the breeding biology of the Asiatic race of the Crested Lark (Galerida cristata magna) were made near Gaza in southern Palestine in the months of May to July, 1944. Crested Larks were common residents on the dry, rolling down...

All the year Breeding of the Rock-Dove

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper Following my finding of Rock-Doves (Columba I. livia) in full nesting activity in January, 1944, at Eathie Shore by Cromarty, (antea, Vol. xxxvii, p. 237) I decided that it would be worth while to keep a watch on the nesting places all the year round ; fo...

Review

01 August 1939 Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory. Report for 1938. As this interesting report shows, Mr, R. M. Lockley is gradually building up at Skokholm a bird observatory which is doing valuable work. A large number of people visited the island during t h e year and helped ...

Notes

01 August 1939 Comments Notes EASILY the outstanding ornithological event in Sussex for the year 1939 was the accomplished breeding, for the first time since about 1895, of a pair of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in a sea-cliff some miles removed from the one in which, in 1938, (?) anothe...

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

01 August 1939 Comments Obituaries (1879-1939-) ornithology has suffered a severe loss in the death of the Rev. E. U. Savage on June 23rd, 1939, at the age of sixty. Since ill health forced him to retire two years ago, he had lived at Staveley, Westmorland, and before that he held livings...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

01 August 1939 Comments Main paper LEACH, HITHERTO in this series of articles we have thought it best to collect together all records of ringed birds, which have moved either from this country to abroad or from abroad to this country. This has meant a certain amount of duplication as the ...

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Letters

Notes

Some Remarks on Sex behaviour of Doves

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. IV. The Marsh-Warbler

Notes on the Breeding Biology of the Crested Lark

All the year Breeding of the Rock-Dove

Review

Notes

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

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