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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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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