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The Sexual Displays of Swallows

01 May 1941 Comments Main paper THE quantitative aspects of the reproduction of the Swallow (Hirundo r. rustica) have been intensively studied in the enquiries of the British Trust for Ornithology (antea, Vol. XXIX, pp. 3-21, Vol. XXX, pp. 98-116) and in many other surveys; but there re...

Nest-Sanitation

01 May 1941 Comments Main paper Faeces carried; no data for first few days ; at a late stage young defaecate from the opening ; if deposited on " doorstep " they are carried; if they fall clear they are left, even if conspicuous (B.H.R., R.G.A., A.H.M.C). [Voided at entrance of nest and...

Notes

01 May 1941 Comments Notes WHEN reading Mr. D. Lack's article on the Chaffinch (antea, p. 216), I was particularly interested in the paragraph on " female song." Just over a year ago (early in March, 1940) I heard at Brent Park, Hendon, a bird singing, which I did not recognize at...

Seventeenth-Century "Poultry"

01 May 1941 Comments Main paper has recently come to my notice a 26-page pamphlet by Adam Shewring, entitled The Plain-dealing Poulterer, and published in London in 1699. The author in his preface states that he has " thought it good after my many years experience, and knowledge gotten ...

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 ...

Timing the Under-water Activities of Diving Birds

01 August 1939 Comments Main paper ACCORDING to the 20-10 seconds rule the average period of the dive in 6 feet of water is 20 seconds, and it is suggested that of this period, 10 seconds are spent in going up and down and 10 seconds on the bottom in search of food (Dewar, 1924). As a dir...

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The Sexual Displays of Swallows

Nest-Sanitation

Notes

Seventeenth-Century "Poultry"

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

Timing the Under-water Activities of Diving Birds

Article PDF - V29_N09_P299-300_RV051.pdf

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