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Letter

01 September 1943 Comments Letters SIRS --It was with very great interest t h a t I read the articles on incubation in the June and July numbers by Col. Ryves and Mr. Tucker. From reading these articles I realised t h a t I must have had a quite unique experience regarding incubation by th...

Notes

01 September 1943 Comments Notes DURING the last year I have been able to pay regular visits to the Sewage Farm just outside the town of Bedford and amongst the many birds seen, the following seem worthy of note. I am grateful to Mr. B. O. Clifford and Mr. A. J. Swain for providing me wi...

Nest-Site Selection by birds

01 September 1943 Comments Main paper T H E late F . C. R. Jourdain writing on " Our Present Knowledge of the Breeding-Biology of B i r d s " (antea, Vol. xxiv, p. 135) remarked : "Every detail of the life of the bird is important. For example most valuable and interesting light is thrown on ...

The Migration of the Sandwich Tern

01 September 1943 Comments Main paper the period 1909-1942 young of the Sandwich Tern (Sterna s. sanivicensis) were ringed in the British Isles to the number of 17,987. Three colonies on the north coast of Norfolk have together made the largest contribution to this total, followed in order of...

Letters

01 January 1938 Comments Letters SIRS,---Miss Hibbert-Ware (Little Owl Inquiry, antea, pp. 215-216) prefaces her remarks on Little Owls 011 Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, with the w o r d s : " T h e following incident seems, however, t o contradict these conclusions [that t h e Little ...

Reviews

01 January 1938 Comments Reviews Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow. Vol. I. A Population Study of the Song Sparrow. By Margaret M. Nice. Transactions of the Linnean Society of New York, IV : April 1937. 2 47PP- 3 plates, 18 charts, 33 tables. (American Museum of Natural His...

Notes

01 January 1938 Comments Notes As there is apparently no previous record for the Outer Hebrides, it may be of interest to report that a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) was killed in North Uist on October 27th, 1937, and that I saw another at Newton Lodge, North Uist, on No...

Some records of the calls and Cries of British "Waders"

01 January 1938 Comments Main paper have often been made to put down in writing a rendering of the notes of birds. A difficulty at once presents itself from the fact that few of these renderings really correspond adequately with the original. Yet they have a certain value because they serve...

Morning song commencement

01 January 1938 Comments Main paper THE following records, which show the times at which certain birds begin to sing in the early morning, were obtained at Hartley, near Gravesend, Kent, in the spring of 1937. An attempt was made to take these records at frequent intervals (two or three tim...

Report of the Little Owl food inquiry, 1936-37

01 January 1938 Comments Main paper The Insect Section of the Report has necessarily to be lengthy because the Inquiry has shown that the Little Owl is a feeder on insects at all stages of growth, at all times of year and in every type of country. Individual Little Owls may differ in degree...

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Letter

Notes

Nest-Site Selection by birds

The Migration of the Sandwich Tern

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Some records of the calls and Cries of British "Waders"

Morning song commencement

Report of the Little Owl food inquiry, 1936-37

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