Notes

01 April 1946
Comments Notes IN the autumn of 1945 I have noticed Jackdaws (Corvus monedula spermologus) frequenting two holes in different beeches close together, at Westerham, Kent, but have been unable to prove definitely that they were breeding. A Jackdaw was seen to leave one h...
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Notes on the food of the Kestrel

01 April 1946
Comments Main paper THE following information has been gathered as the result of analyses of 206 pellets of the Kestrel (Fako t. timmnculus) collected at regular intervals between July 1st, 1944, and March 24th, 1945, from a roost in an old shed and are believed, from feathe...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 November 1939
Comments Main paper Oundle (Northants), 12.1.39 [62 m. W.]. Great Ouse Estuary (Nor folk), 21.1.39 [25 m. W.]. Saltmills (Wexford), 5.2.39. Kalinin, West Russia, 15.9.38 [56°52'N., 36°E.]. Mouth of R. Welland (Lines), 24.12.38 [76 m. NW.].Saltash (Cornwall), 12.1.39 [9...
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Letter

01 November 1939
Comments Letters SIRS,--The extension of the breeding range of the Lapwing {Vanellus vanellus) to Fokstumyren referred to in my previous letter (antea, p. 118) is certainly recent. Neither H. Tho. L. Schaanning in 1917 nor H. L. Ldvenskiold in 1929 and 1930 found the bird...
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Reviews

01 November 1939
Comments Reviews Report of Marlborough College Natural History Society, 1938. T H E number of bird-observers this year is low, b u t we may hope t h a t this is only a temporary fluctuation. A very late Willow-Warbler is recorded for November oth, a Greenshank was seen in...
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