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01 October 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to Mr. Masefield's note (antea, p . 270), fleas m a y generally b e found in T i t ' s nests in t h e winter, a n d during t h e first few warm days in spring m a y be seen waiting in numbers outside t h e hole ready to j u ...

Notes

01 October 1963 Comments Notes ON January 21st, 1914, I was shown a couple of very fine Pine-Grosbeaks (Pinicola e. enucleator) that had been, obtained the previous day at Brigbtling, Sussex. They were both males, and one was of a beautiful rosy colour and of a far more gaudy tint tha...

Obituary: The Late G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

01 October 1963 Comments Obituaries born 1871, B.A. Cambridge 1894 (first-class in the Natural Science Tripos in the same list with his friend Dr. E. A. Wilson), Major oth (Militia) Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, in which he served during the South African war, Hon. Captain in the Army, P.Z...

Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire

01 October 1963 Comments Main paper SINCE the appearance of the Rev, A. C. Smith's Birds of Wiltshire in 1887 many new county records have naturally occurred. I now propose to give the more interesting of those I have collected, some of which have heen published before, but many of which ar...

The Courtship of the Common Gull.

01 October 1963 Comments Main paper O N May 9th, 1913, I found a colony of about twenty pairs of Common Gulls (Larus c. camts) nesting on a small island in a freshwater loch in the Outer Hebrides. The islet was occupied also by about the same number of pairs of Black-headed Gulls (Larus rid...

Bird foods and feeding-habits as subjects for Amateur research

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper I N THE STRAIGHT-FORWARD, descriptive natural history of any species, the food which it eats is an obvious item. T h e century and a half of scientific ornithology which has followed The Natural History of Selborne has seen the compilation of qualitative ...

Notes on Nesting Nightjars

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper THE following observations were made in late June and early July 1952-56, round Westleton in Suffolk, where Nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) breed not uncommonly on sandy heaths similar to those where I studied the species fifty miles N . N . W . , round...

Letters

01 July 1957 Comments Letters T H E C O L L E C T I O N O F R E C O R D S F O R ANALYSIS S I R S , -- Y o u r correspondent, Mr. T. C. Smout, raises issues of fundamental importance (antea, vol. xlix, pp. 287-288). If a paper is put forward for publication in a scientific form and pur...

Reviews

01 July 1957 Comments Reviews By MICHAEL LISTER. (Phoenix House, London, 1956). 256 pages. 45s. IT IS curious that The Bird Watcher's Reference Book should have appeared at about the same time as The Ornithologists' Guide (see antea, vol. xlix, p p . 504-505). Both have developed ind...

Notes

01 July 1957 Comments Notes 1956, a female Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) wearing a British Museum ring (941642) was recaptured in the decoy a t Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. She was accompanied by four ducklings, estimated to be four or five days old. This female was marked at Slimbri...

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Obituary: The Late G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire

The Courtship of the Common Gull.

Bird foods and feeding-habits as subjects for Amateur research

Notes on Nesting Nightjars

Letters

Reviews

Notes

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