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01 October 1971 Comments Notes Moorhen killing Jackdaw In view of A. Blackett's note (Brit. Birds, 63: 384), the following incident may be of interest. On 28th June 1964, at Corsham Lake, Wiltshire, I was watching a pair of Moorhens Gailitmla chbropus with five small chicks feeding by ...

Letters

01 December 1964 Comments Letters SIRS,--While not seeking to prolong this correspondence unduly, for there is more than a grain of truth on either side, I feel that some reply is called for to Mr. Reginald Wagstaffe's letter (antea, pp. 319-320). May I point out at once that I do not dis...

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01 January 1964 Comments Notes Fulmar incubating eggs of Herring Gull with its own.--On 27th May 1963 I was walking along a cliff top four miles south of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, when I surprised a Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis off its nest. As it flew, a brown egg rolled out and smashed on t...

Letters

01 May 1962 Comments Letters Ringed birds in snow Sirs,--During the snowy period of early January 1962, in my garden sanctuary near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, I saw two ringed birds, a Blue Tit (Pants caerukus) and a Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus), with their rings thickly coated ...

Survey of House Martin colonies in East Lancashire

01 May 1959 Comments Main paper IN THE SUMMER of 1958, the East Lancashire Ornithologists' Club carried out a local survey of the nesting-sites of the House Martin (Delichon urbica), with a view to ascertaining- their distribution and the factors controlling it. The area chosen for stud...

Nest Records of the Song-Thrush

01 April 1949 Comments Main paper ...

Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...

The Names of the Song-Thrushes

01 December 1934 Comments Main paper IN the article on " Additions and Alterations to the British List" in the September issue of this magazine it was stated (p. 96) that the proposed alterations in the names of the Song-Thrushes would be postponed here until the point regarding the name phi...