Recovery of Marked Birds

01 December 1946
Comments Main paper Bamsley (Yorks), 13.2.46. [31m. SSW.]. (considered t o be continental winter-visitor). Ditto 5.2.46, by Bootham Grantham (Lines), 24.3.46. School. [ 7 5 m - SSE.]. Ditto 23.2.42. Ringkobing (Jylland), Denmark, 1942. Ditto 26.1.42. Aaby (Fyn), Denmark, 24....
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Letters

01 December 1946
Comments Letters SIRS,--Writing in British Birds (antea, p . 214) on t h e question of the soft parts coloration in the Crested Tit (Parus cristatus) I made reference to having examined in t h e course of my studies "some dozens" of specimens. I t is now evident t h a t m...
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Reviews

01 December 1946
Comments Reviews Birmingham and District Bird Club : Twelfth Annual Report on the Birds of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and South Staffordshire, KJJ.V T H E section of classified notes in this report is very short compared with some other county publications and a weakne...
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Notes

01 December 1946
Comments Notes ON April 26th, 1946, I found near Portchester, Hants., the nest of a Magpie (Pica p. pica) containing eleven eggs, all very round in shape and smaller than usual. Only one hen was observed at the nest, which is in a hawthorn and has been used for years ;...
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Letter

01 March 1945
Comments Letters SIRS,--I am collecting all the information I can on clutch size and nesting success in the Robin (Erithacus rubecula), and should be very grateful for any unpublished information which readers could supply. Every nest record is of value, both from Britain...
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Reviews

01 March 1945
Comments Reviews Ornithological Report for Northumberland and Durham for 1943. Compiled by G. W. Temperley (The Naturalist, July-September, 1944). I N spite of war-time curtailment of opportunities for bird observation this carefully compiled report contains a noteworthy...
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Notes

01 March 1945
Comments Notes IN reference to Mr. David Lack's note on Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula) singing in London at the end of January (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p. 116), in some parts of London such as Kensington, where there are many houses with gardens, it is quite exceptional fo...
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