Letters

01 April 1963
Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. Miller Christy, in his very interesting letter in your last issue (p. 91), remarks t h a t I have n o t done justice t o the bird-life on Walthamstow Reservoirs, b u t I must point o u t t h a t m y note was only intended to record t h e nestin...
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Reviews

01 April 1963
Comments Reviews Aberdeen University Bird-migration Inquiry: First Interim Report (1909-12). By A. Landsborough Thomson, M.A., M.B.O.U. (Reprinted from the Scottish Naturalist, July, October, November, 1912 ; February, April and June, 1913.) THESE papers give details of t...
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Notes

01 April 1963
Comments Notes W E have received a good many schedules relating to these two inquiries (see Vol. VI., pp. 296-311, and Vol. VII, pp. 4-6), but we sincerely hope that many more of our readers will send in particulars. This should now be done without delay, and if the fo...
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On Incubation

01 April 1963
Comments Main paper As has previously been shown,* many birds belonging to various Orders commence incubation upon the laying of the first egg. This habit is undoubtedly of the utmost value to many species, saving the eggs from destruction by the numerous animals which devou...
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The index of heron population

01 March 1950
Comments Main paper The number of heronries on which reports for 1949 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 162, or 16 more than in the previous year. Of these 117 were in England, 9 in Wales, 17 in Scotland and 19 in Ireland. We are indebted to 79 informants of who...
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The Behaviour Of Corn-Crakes

01 March 1950
Comments Main paper MASON DURING the past few years the writer, with the help of friends, has carried out a series of experiments with Corn-Crakes {Crex crex) The experiments consist in calling up Corn-Crakes to a stuffed dummy by imitating the " crake-crake " song with a p...
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