Letters

01 May 1963
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n t h e article on Incubation, b y Mr, Erie B. Dunlop (antea, p. 109), t h e writer s a y s : " Another bird which rears few young compared to t h e number of eggs it lays is t h e Great-erested Grebe. Four or five eggs are very frequently ...
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Notes

01 May 1963
Comments Notes FOE some years now I have been paying particular attention to the nestlings of common birds. It is of course now known to all ornithologists that the parents keep the nest clean (as a general rule) by carrying away the excrement, and often by swallowing ...
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Reviews

01 May 1938
Comments Reviews De Nederlandsche Vogels. Bewerkt door Dr. C. Eykman, P . A, Hens, Jhr Dr. Ir F . C. van H e u m , Dr. C. G. B. t e n Kate, J. G. van Marie, G. van der Meer, M. J. Tekke en Tsj. Gs. de Vries. Eerste Deel. (Wageningen : Boek en Handelsdrukkerij). This is th...
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Notes

01 May 1938
Comments Notes ON March 3rd, 1938, at Cambridge sewage farm we observed a Pipit which we were able to identify as a Water-Pipit (Anthus s. spinoletta). It was first seen feeding amongst other birds (Meadow-Pipits, Pied Wagtails and waders) on one of the tanks and its d...
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Birds of Inner London

01 May 1938
Comments Main paper 1937 there was one addition to the list published in this magazine in 1929 (Vol. XXII, pp. 222-244) a n ( i subsequently extended.* The list, excluding doubtful occurrences, now numbers 141 species or sub-species.A Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps g. griseigen...
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Breeding-habits of the Dunlin

01 May 1938
Comments Main paper THE Dunlin (Calidris a. schinzii) breeds on the salt marshes fronting the Cumberland side of the Solway Firth and on the fells of the north Pennines. On the salt marshes the breeding ground is the level area of short grass intersected with little creeks a...
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Letters

01 May 1938
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have read with great interest the note upon the song of t h e Chaffinch (Fringilla c. gengleri) in The Handbook of British Birds especially in reference t o t h e " alternative call " a s described byMr. H. G. Alexander, i.e.,the single pro...
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