Letters

01 September 1950 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n their paper on this subject in British Birds, vol. xlii, p. 325, David and Elizabeth Lack write t h a t Dr. D. A. Bannerman in his note on Chaffinch Migration in .British Birds, vol. xxxvii, p . 177, supposed t h a t the birds he saw in N...
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Reviews

01 September 1950 Comments Reviews Report of the Natural History Section of the Wiltshire Archcsological &· Natural History Society, 1947 and 1948. Some of the interesting records in these two carefully compiled reports have already appeared in British Birds : a Roller reported (antea, v...
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Notes

01 September 1950 Comments Notes WITH regard to the swimming of small passerines (antea, vol. xl, pp. 179, vol. xlii, p. 183, vol. xliii, p. 121), the following incidents may be of interest. At the Eye Brook Reservoir, Leicestershire, a colony of Tree-Sparrows (Passer montanus) uses the...
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Letter

01 September 1943 Comments Letters SIRS --It was with very great interest t h a t I read the articles on incubation in the June and July numbers by Col. Ryves and Mr. Tucker. From reading these articles I realised t h a t I must have had a quite unique experience regarding incubation by th...
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Notes

01 September 1943 Comments Notes DURING the last year I have been able to pay regular visits to the Sewage Farm just outside the town of Bedford and amongst the many birds seen, the following seem worthy of note. I am grateful to Mr. B. O. Clifford and Mr. A. J. Swain for providing me wi...
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Nest-Site Selection by birds

01 September 1943 Comments Main paper T H E late F . C. R. Jourdain writing on " Our Present Knowledge of the Breeding-Biology of B i r d s " (antea, Vol. xxiv, p. 135) remarked : "Every detail of the life of the bird is important. For example most valuable and interesting light is thrown on ...
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