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01 March 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,--In Vol. xl, p. 245, you say t h a t the taking of food from the water b y Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) has apparently not been "previously recorded in our ornithological literature." I have recently had occasion t o search t h e literature for ...

Reviews

01 March 1948 Comments Reviews Ornithological Record for Derbyshire, 1946. Compiled b y W. K. Marshall. This publication gives evidence of considerable activity among Derbyshire bird-observers, and includes many interesting notes. To the "complete list of birds recorded in t h e count...

Notes

01 March 1948 Comments Notes ON July 19th, 1947, whilst cycling near Heytesbury, Wiltshire, I heard some Magpies (P. p. pica) chattering, as though alarmed, in a hawthorn not far from the road. I turned and was just in time to see a Carrion Crow (Corvus c. corone) strike a Magpie to...

The distinguishing characters of the Steppe-Buzzard

01 March 1948 Comments Main paper THE eastern race of the Buzzard, known as the Steppe-Buzzard, Buieo buteo vulpinus Gloger, which breeds as far west in Europe as North Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria, has been shown to occur as a bird of passage (and more rarely ...

Winter feeding hours of Robins, Blackbirds and Blue Tits

01 March 1948 Comments Main paper IT IS a matter of common knowledge that birds do not spend the whole of their waking hours looking for food, even during the short days of mid-winter. Gulls and waders, for instance, may be seen standing in flocks, inactive for hours on end. The watcher k...

Bird life on the Pett level floods, 1941-1943

01 March 1948 Comments Main paper [In 1940 Pett Level in Sussex was flooded as part of the war-time defences of the south coast, and a considerable area thus reverted for the time being to conditions which must have resembled those prevailing in this and other low-lying coastal tracts bef...

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 [56Â°52'N., 36Â°E.]. Mouth of R. Welland (Lines), 24.12.38 [76 m. NW.].Saltash (Cornwall), 12.1.39 [9...

Birds seen on an autumn and a spring Atlantic Crossing

01 November 1939 Comments Main paper IN the autumn of 1938 and the spring of 1935 I made voyages across the Atlantic. The first one was in the "Europa" from Cherbourg to New York and the secondin the "Columbie" from Guadeloupe in the Leeward Isles to Plymouth. Several hours counting of birds...

Observation on Swallows and House-Martins at the Nest

01 November 1939 Comments Main paper RECENT studies of the parental care by African Hinindinidae and Swifts have suggested that, in addition to specific differences in the share taken by the sexes, certain rhythms of the behaviour may be specific, especially the favourite duration of the in...

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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