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01 August 1946 Comments Letters --The habit, referred to by several contributors to this and the previous volume T f this journal (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300, 360, Vol. > xxxix, pp. 159,160) in which parent birds of many species probe into the nest lining beneath the young, has b...

Review

01 August 1946 Comments Reviews Glossarium Europce Avium. By Harriet I. J0rgensen and Cecil I. Blackburne. · Einar Mimksgaard, Copenhagen, 1941. T H I S invaluable little book, prepared before the war and published in Copenhagen in 1941, has as yet had little' opportunity of demonstrat...

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01 August 1946 Comments Notes As there is no mention in The Handbook of British Birds of a female Greenfinch (Chloris ch. chloris) singing, the following may be worthy of note. 1 have in my garden near Crawley, Sussex, a nest of this species in a cypress-tree, which hatched on May 21...

The Breeding of Marsh and Montagu's Harriers in North Wales in 1945

01 August 1946 Comments Main paper IN 1945 the first recorded breeding of Marsh-Harriers (Circus ce. aruginosus) in recent years outside East Anglia took place in N. Wales, in which region the last known cases of nesting of this species were in Merionethshire in 1869 and 1877 (Forrest, 190...

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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 Breeding of Marsh and Montagu's Harriers in North Wales in 1945

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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

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