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Singing of Birds on Malta and Gozo

01 December 1946 Comments Main paper THE following notes on the singing and calling of birds, mostly of species on the British List, were made on Malta and Gozo between September, 1941, and July 1945. They do not pretend to be eompreprehensive on the subject of bird song on these islands, bu...

Notes on the food of some British Birds

01 December 1946 Comments Main paper As there is little or no information in The Handbook of British Birds, concerning the food of the Shetland Starling (Sturnus vulgaris zetlandicus), Hebridean Stonechat (Saxicola torquata theresce), Iceland Redshank (Tringa totanus robusta), and Irish Red...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 December 1946 Comments Main paper Bamsley (Yorks), 13.2.46. [31m. SSW.]. (considered t o be continental winter-visitor). Ditto 5.2.46, by Bootham Grantham (Lines), 24.3.46. School. [ 7 5 m - SSE.]. Ditto 23.2.42. Ringkobing (Jylland), Denmark, 1942. Ditto 26.1.42. Aaby (Fyn), Denmark, 24....

The Clutch-size of the Yellowhammer

01 December 1946 Comments Main paper IN I044 one of us (K.P.) undertook an intensive study of the nesting of the Yellowhammer {Emberiza ciirinclla) near Oxford. In conversation, it was found that this confirmed the seasonal variations in clutch-size found for the Robin (Erithacus rubccula) b...

Letters

01 December 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--Writing in British Birds (antea, p . 214) on t h e question of the soft parts coloration in the Crested Tit (Parus cristatus) I made reference to having examined in t h e course of my studies "some dozens" of specimens. I t is now evident t h a t m...

Reviews

01 December 1946 Comments Reviews Birmingham and District Bird Club : Twelfth Annual Report on the Birds of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and South Staffordshire, KJJ.V T H E section of classified notes in this report is very short compared with some other county publications and a weakne...

Notes

01 December 1946 Comments Notes ON April 26th, 1946, I found near Portchester, Hants., the nest of a Magpie (Pica p. pica) containing eleven eggs, all very round in shape and smaller than usual. Only one hen was observed at the nest, which is in a hawthorn and has been used for years ;...

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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Singing of Birds on Malta and Gozo

Notes on the food of some British Birds

Recovery of Marked Birds

The Clutch-size of the Yellowhammer

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Review

Notes

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

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