Letters

01 May 1963
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n t h e article on Incubation, b y Mr, Erie B. Dunlop (antea, p. 109), t h e writer s a y s : " Another bird which rears few young compared to t h e number of eggs it lays is t h e Great-erested Grebe. Four or five eggs are very frequently ...
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Notes

01 May 1963
Comments Notes FOE some years now I have been paying particular attention to the nestlings of common birds. It is of course now known to all ornithologists that the parents keep the nest clean (as a general rule) by carrying away the excrement, and often by swallowing ...
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Reviews

01 July 1943
Comments Reviews Adventurers Fen. Written and illustrated by E, A. R. Ennion. (Methuen). IOS. 6d. D R . ENNION'S account of the vicissitudes of the Cambridge fen he has known and loved for forty years has much to attract and interest the naturalist and country lover. At f...
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Notes

01 July 1943
Comments Notes NOTES FROM CUMBERLAND (Bombycilia garrulus).--Single bird near Cumdivock on December 27th, 1939. HEDGE-SPARROW (Prunella m. occidentalis).--During three weeks of frost in January 1941 as many as ten birds were noticed feeding quietly together amongst the...
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