Letters

01 May 1996 Comments Letters In October 'News and comment' (Brit. Birds 88: 489), Shelley Hinsley's letter in the New Scientist about feeding peanuts in the summer was quoted. Readers may feel that this reference indicated the wholesale death of nestling tits Parus nationwide thro...
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Letters

01 May 1933 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n June, 1919, I found an undomed nest of a Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus c. collybita) with three young birds in a stunted hawthorn bush growing on a bankside near Wetheral, Cumberland. I t was a n open nest built of grasses and lined with feath...
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Notes

01 May 1933 Comments Notes As the Jackdaw (Colceusm. spermologus) is a bird not usually subject to variation, some notes on a local variety seen at Douglas may be of interest. These white-winged Jackdaws are best described as having on the outer primary a white spot or " mirror " e...
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