Letters

01 September 1963
Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to t h e article on " The Breeding-habits of t h e Dartford Warbler," and t o t h e statement on page 218, I have never seen a Dartford Warbler's nest in England, a n d know nothing of their habits in this country. I n t h e...
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Reviews

01 September 1963
Comments Reviews British Diving Ducks. By J. G. Millais, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Vol. II. Seventeen coloured and twenty-five uneoloured plates. Longmans. In two volumes, £12 12s. net. IN our last volume (pp. 365-70) we gave an extended notice of the fisst part of Mr. Mill...
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Notes

01 September 1963
Comments Notes A YOUNG drake Gadwall {Anas strepera) was shot on J a n u a r y 14th, 1913, a t Stretton. I saw t w o K n o t s (Canutus canutus) on October 12th, 1913, a t Bellfields Reservoir. I watched t h e m for some time through powerful glasses, a n d when one fle...
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Notes

01 January 1941
Comments Notes ON November 2nd, 1940, in a field with small trees at the edge of a wood near Potter's Bar, I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity of watching a bird, which was evidently a Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor). The bird flew to the top of a bare hawt...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 January 1941
Comments Main paper Thornton - le - dale (Yorks), Bedlington (Northumb), 4.1.39, by R. M. Garnett. 7-3-4°Wetherby (Yorks), 30.1.2.39, by Preston (Lanes), --.2.40. Bootham School. Gt. Budworth (Ches), 12.11.38, Grantham (Lines), Spring, by A. W. Boyd. 194°Ditto 22.11.37. M...
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