Review

01 March 1941 Comments Reviews Birds of the Grey Wind. By Edward A, Armstrong (Oxford University Press). Illustrated. 12s. 6d. net. THE title of this book and its unusual medley of poetry, history and legend may well hide the fact that also within its pages are to be found some excelle...
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Notes

01 March 1941 Comments Notes As an example of how food-supply can affect the number of birds breeding in a locality the following may be of interest. When I first came to Benenden, Kent, about twenty years ago, so far as I know Hawfinches (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) never nes...
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Nest-Sanitation

01 March 1941 Comments Main paper " No bird fouls its own nest " runs an old proverb. This might well serve as a text for the present paper, based on an investigation carried out in the past few years by the Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society. Nest-sanitation in the House-Mar...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 February 1934 Comments Main paper THE reasons for this new form of publishing these lists and an explanation of the categories now used were given on page 87 of this volume. Carrion-Crow (Corvus c. cor one).No. RT.6671 RT.6701 RT.6702 RT.6703 75424 RT.7114 R I N G E D AS NESTLINGS. Ringe...
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