Review

01 March 1941
Comments Reviews Birds of the Grey Wind. By Edward A, Armstrong (Oxford University Press). Illustrated. 12s. 6d. net. THE title of this book and its unusual medley of poetry, history and legend may well hide the fact that also within its pages are to be found some excelle...
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Notes

01 March 1941
Comments Notes As an example of how food-supply can affect the number of birds breeding in a locality the following may be of interest. When I first came to Benenden, Kent, about twenty years ago, so far as I know Hawfinches (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) never nes...
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Nest-Sanitation

01 March 1941
Comments Main paper " No bird fouls its own nest " runs an old proverb. This might well serve as a text for the present paper, based on an investigation carried out in the past few years by the Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society. Nest-sanitation in the House-Mar...
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Notes

01 September 1933
Comments Notes RAYMOND PHILIPSON'S paper on Rooks and their roosts in South Northumberland (antea, p. 66) prompts me to forward some notes I made in the same area nearly thirty years ago. From 1904 to 1906 I lived on the west side of Newcastle. Rooks were notable birds...
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