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01 April 1946 Comments Notes IN the autumn of 1945 I have noticed Jackdaws (Corvus monedula spermologus) frequenting two holes in different beeches close together, at Westerham, Kent, but have been unable to prove definitely that they were breeding. A Jackdaw was seen to leave one h...

Notes on the food of the Kestrel

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper THE following information has been gathered as the result of analyses of 206 pellets of the Kestrel (Fako t. timmnculus) collected at regular intervals between July 1st, 1944, and March 24th, 1945, from a roost in an old shed and are believed, from feathe...

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. III. The Cirl Bunting

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 15-16). THIS local species (Emberiza cirlus) is one of the comparatively small number of birds regularly breeding in the British Isles which may still fairly be classed in the present category. Some earlier observers concluded that only the femal...

Breeding of the Black Redstart in Britain: A Century-old record

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper IN 1916, seven years before T. A. Coward found the Black Redstart (Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) breeding on the Sussex coast and so established what was then thought to be the first British record, F. C. R. Jourdain wrote an article in The Zoolog...

Clutch and Brood Size in the Robin

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper THE following paper summarizes data on clutch and brood size in the Robin {Erithacus rubecula), sent in by a large number of observers in response to private letters and to requests in British Birds, the Ibis and the bulletin of the British Trust for Orni...

ON THE BREEDING-HABITS OF THE MANX SHEARWATER, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS INCUBATION- AND FLEDGING-PERIODS

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REVIEWS: Report on Somerset Birds, 1928; Report of the Cambridge Ornithological Club, 1928

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LETTERS

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Letters

01 January 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--May I be spared a little space to invite the attention of your readers to the Annual Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. This Report, the last issue of which you were good enough t...

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Notes

Notes on the food of the Kestrel

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. III. The Cirl Bunting

Breeding of the Black Redstart in Britain: A Century-old record

Clutch and Brood Size in the Robin

ON THE BREEDING-HABITS OF THE MANX SHEARWATER, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS INCUBATION- AND FLEDGING-PERIODS

NOTES

REVIEWS: Report on Somerset Birds, 1928; Report of the Cambridge Ornithological Club, 1928

LETTERS

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