Letter

01 February 1943
Comments Letters SIRS,--As the Statement in The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. III, p. 109) that the Osprey (Pandion h. hali/ztus) last bred at Loch Arkaig in 1902 is incorrect this should be corrected. A pair nested regularly ever since I can remember up to 1908 and the...
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Notes

01 February 1943
Comments Notes IN February, 1942, seventy-five nesting boxes were put up inone of the oak woods of the Forest of Dean, with the object of encouraging the breeding of insectivorous birds (tits, in particular) and thus alleviating, if possible, the recurrent outbreaks of...
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The Age of the Blackbird

01 February 1943
Comments Main paper THE potential age, the age to which birds can live, has been the subject of several papers, the earlier ones based on records in captivity, e.g. Gurney (1899), Mitchell (1911), Flower (1925), and the later ones on ringing returns, e.g. Witherby (1926), Ni...
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Reviews

01 December 1928
Comments Reviews Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, 1927. Edited by B. W. Tucker, M.A., M.B.O.U. is. 6d. THIS Report bears evidence of increased activity and great keenness on the part of the members. We...
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Letters

01 December 1928
Comments Letters SIRS,--Will you kindly allow me space to make enquiries concerning the present whereabouts of a clutch of two eggs of the Honey-Buzzard taken in the Quantocks, Somerset, on June 25th, 1899. These eggs were sold a t Stevens's on April 25th, 1906, ex collec...
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