Notes

01 September 1947
Comments Notes ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking some...
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Notes on Welsh Choughs

01 September 1947
Comments Main paper As THE Chough (Pyrrhocorax p. pyrrhocorax) is one of our lesserknown species, the following observations might be of interest as furnishing corroboration of the excellent account of this species given in The Handbook. The notes are the result of observati...
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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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