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01 July 1931 Comments Notes ON May 1st, 1931, in an open hole in a limb of a great ash tree at Bamston Lodge, Essex, I found a Jackdaw (Colceus m. spermologus) sitting on four eggs so much mud-daubed that they were very inconspicuous on the nest material. I had not time to investig...

Obituary: John Hutton Stenhouse

01 July 1931 Comments Obituaries T H E R E was a time in the development of natural science in Britain when the study of medicine formed the foundation upon which most of the great naturalists built. John H u t t o n Stenhouse belonged to the distinguished school of the surgeonnaturalis...

Recovery of Marked birds

01 July 1931 Comments Main paper Place and Date Ringed. Place and Date Recovered. CARRION-CROW {Corpus c. corone). RR.4489 Near Gt. Budworth (Ches.), Near Knutsford (Ches.), 11.5.30, young, by A. W. 7.3.31, by C. Hart. Boyd. RR-7^55 Malvern (Worcs.), IT.5,29, Where ringed, 3.5.31, by you...

Experimental studies of Ringed Plover. The retrieving, recognition, orientation and rotation of its eggs by the bird

01 July 1931 Comments Main paper April 25th to June 4th, 1930, I had the unique opportunity of having, in the same area, over forty nests of the Ringed Plover (Charadrius h. hiaticula) under observation, and during this period I made detailed records. With one exception, all the nests fo...

Letters

01 June 1931 Comments Letters SIRS,--Referring t o Mr. Riviere's Ornithological Report lor Norfolk for 1930 (antea, Vol. XXIV., pp. 306-318) m a y I be allowed t o make the following slight additions. SPRING MIGRATION.--As little has been recorded the following m a y be of interest. M...

Reviews

01 June 1931 Comments Reviews Memories of Fourscore Years Less Two (1851-1929). By Abel Chapman. With a Memoir by George Bolam. Illustrated. (Gumey & Jackson.) 21s. net. This, alas ! is the last of a long list of delightful books t h a t we shall see from the pen and pencil of t h a t...

Notes

01 June 1931 Comments Notes ON May 14th, 1931, a Hawfinch {Coccothraustes c. coccoihraustes), apparently a male, flew across in front of my car on the Perth-Blairgowrie road, about if miles from Perth. As far as I am aware this is the first record in the county for about five years...

Manx ornithological notes, 1929 and 1930

01 June 1931 Comments Main paper DURING these years little information from the lighthouses has come to hand, but the Point of Ayre recorded considerable migratory movements in the end of January and beginning of February, 1929 (in S. and S.E. wind with fog and rain), and again November...

The display of the Mallard

01 June 1931 Comments Main paper years ago, the writer gave notes on the courting display of several common ducks. (See Vols. XVIII. and XIX.). It had been intended to include the Mallard (Anas p. platyrhynchd), but the observations then available seemed so markedly different from those ...

North Sea migrants, 1930

01 June 1931 Comments Main paper THE year 1930 proved to be the best for birds seen since these records were commenced in 1927.* Several new species were added to the list, the most noticeable being Golden Eagle, Merlin, Sooty Shearwater, Ivory-Gull and Grey Phalarope. The Golden Eagle w...

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Notes

Obituary: John Hutton Stenhouse

Recovery of Marked birds

Experimental studies of Ringed Plover. The retrieving, recognition, orientation and rotation of its eggs by the bird

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Manx ornithological notes, 1929 and 1930

The display of the Mallard

North Sea migrants, 1930

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