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01 November 1963 Comments Notes IT has long been known that, in the Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) the mandibles cross indifferently on either side in different individuals. Recently, however, for a special purpose, I desired to ascertain whether or not individuals having the man...
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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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01 April 1963 Comments Notes W E have received a good many schedules relating to these two inquiries (see Vol. VI., pp. 296-311, and Vol. VII, pp. 4-6), but we sincerely hope that many more of our readers will send in particulars. This should now be done without delay, and if the fo...
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01 November 1936 Comments Notes ON September 5th, 1936, a Bunting was seen by several observers running about rapidly among heather clumps on Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire. Although a sketch was made of the bird, which was very tame, no definite identification was arrived at. It was s...
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01 December 1934 Comments Notes DURING the last week in May, 1934, a pair of Spotted Flycatchers (Muscicapa s. striata) built a nest in a cleft of a climbing rose tree growing against the wall of our house in Norfolk. On May 31st this nest contained four eggs, which were taken. On June...
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01 October 1934 Comments Notes As records of the Snow-Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) from inland districts in the south are comparatively few, the following would appear to be of interest despite the fact t h a t one of the occurrences has remained unrecorded for over sixty years. Th...
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01 October 1933 Comments Notes DURING June, 1933,1 spent a few days at Tomdoun, Glengarry, west Inverness, and had much conversation about the birds of the region with Mr. Murdoch Matheson, head gamekeeper and deer-stalker in Glengarry. Mr. Matheson has a very wide knowledge of the lo...
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01 June 1933 Comments Notes O N April 8th, 1933, the Blackbird which sings from the apex of our cottage on Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, was displaced by a small finch whose song I have never heard before. It was linnet-like, but much fainter, and I put down the notes " tu-tee, t...
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01 October 1931 Comments Notes --Ringers are reminded that all schedules with lists of birds they have ringed during the season should now be sent in. As it is a great convenience in collating totals for the lists of birds ringed to be uniform in size and order, special forms have been...
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01 September 1931 Comments Notes 1 OBSERVE that in Vol. XX., p. 150, May n t h is mentioned as the earliest recorded date for a complete clutch of the Redbacked Shrike (Lanhis c. collurio). It is therefore of interest to record t h a t I personally took a clutch of five eggs on May 5th,...
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