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01 November 1946 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have observed no less than twenty-three instances between February 27th and March 7th, 1946, where one Rook (Corvus f. frugUegus) was either in or standing upon t h e nest with two attendant Rooks perched close together a t some twelve t o ...

Reviews

01 November 1946 Comments Reviews Birds in Colour. By Walter Higham. (Collins, 1945). Price 25s. T H I S book comes as something of a shock to those who are acquainted with the excellence of the colour rendering in Mr. Higham's cinematograph films. The gap between colour transparencies an...

Notes

01 November 1946 Comments Notes RAVEN NESTING IN A ROOKERY, ON March loth, 1946, I flushed a Raven (Corvus c. cor ax) from a nest at the top of a tall pine in a conifer wood about five miles from Cardiff. In view of previous records of this species nesting in rookeries (antea, Vol. xxx...

Variations in clutch size and some nesting success data

01 November 1946 Comments Main paper SOME time ago Mr. David Lack remarked to me that during the earlier months of the season birds tended to lay smaller clutches than in the later months. My observations in Devonshire show the following results.Hence C/3 is not uncommon in the early part of...

Notes on nest-sites of the Oyster-catcher and the Long-Eared Owl as a hole breeder

01 November 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 44-46). THE OYSTER-CATCHER. THE Oyster-catcher (Hcematopus ostralegus) is a bird that sometimes uses strange nesting-places. On the isle of Texel a pair bred from 1917-1934 on the thatched roof of a barn as stated by Drijver (Texel, ket vogdeiland...

Roosting Habits of the Irish Coal-Tit, with some Observations on other Habits

01 November 1946 Comments Main paper (Plate 43). THE observation in The Handbook, Vol. i, p, 256, stating that data on normal roosting habits of the Coal-Tit were scanty, led me to pay particular attention to this subject. My observations are confined to the Irish Coal-Tit (Parus ater hibemi...

Notes on some Monmouthshire and East Glamorgan Birds, 1943-1945

01 November 1946 Comments Main paper notes are intended to follow up those published by L. Hugh Doncaster and myself in Volume xxxvi, pp. 198-199, which covered the years 1941-1942, and dealt mainly with the Vale of Ewyas, in the extreme north of Monmouthshire, and the valley of the Soar, a ...

Review

01 August 1939 Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory. Report for 1938. As this interesting report shows, Mr, R. M. Lockley is gradually building up at Skokholm a bird observatory which is doing valuable work. A large number of people visited the island during t h e year and helped ...

Notes

01 August 1939 Comments Notes EASILY the outstanding ornithological event in Sussex for the year 1939 was the accomplished breeding, for the first time since about 1895, of a pair of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in a sea-cliff some miles removed from the one in which, in 1938, (?) anothe...

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

01 August 1939 Comments Obituaries (1879-1939-) ornithology has suffered a severe loss in the death of the Rev. E. U. Savage on June 23rd, 1939, at the age of sixty. Since ill health forced him to retire two years ago, he had lived at Staveley, Westmorland, and before that he held livings...

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Letter

Reviews

Notes

Variations in clutch size and some nesting success data

Notes on nest-sites of the Oyster-catcher and the Long-Eared Owl as a hole breeder

Roosting Habits of the Irish Coal-Tit, with some Observations on other Habits

Notes on some Monmouthshire and East Glamorgan Birds, 1943-1945

Review

Notes

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

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