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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Reviews

01 May 1938
Comments Reviews De Nederlandsche Vogels. Bewerkt door Dr. C. Eykman, P . A, Hens, Jhr Dr. Ir F . C. van H e u m , Dr. C. G. B. t e n Kate, J. G. van Marie, G. van der Meer, M. J. Tekke en Tsj. Gs. de Vries. Eerste Deel. (Wageningen : Boek en Handelsdrukkerij). This is th...
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Notes

01 May 1938
Comments Notes ON March 3rd, 1938, at Cambridge sewage farm we observed a Pipit which we were able to identify as a Water-Pipit (Anthus s. spinoletta). It was first seen feeding amongst other birds (Meadow-Pipits, Pied Wagtails and waders) on one of the tanks and its d...
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Birds of Inner London

01 May 1938
Comments Main paper 1937 there was one addition to the list published in this magazine in 1929 (Vol. XXII, pp. 222-244) a n ( i subsequently extended.* The list, excluding doubtful occurrences, now numbers 141 species or sub-species.A Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps g. griseigen...
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Breeding-habits of the Dunlin

01 May 1938
Comments Main paper THE Dunlin (Calidris a. schinzii) breeds on the salt marshes fronting the Cumberland side of the Solway Firth and on the fells of the north Pennines. On the salt marshes the breeding ground is the level area of short grass intersected with little creeks a...
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