Notes

01 February 1963 Comments Notes T H E following two records of marked Starlings have so far not been published except in t h e German reports :-- Vog. Rossitten No. 108 : marked in the nest on J u n e 10th, 1909, a t Lisden, near Wolmar, Livonia, Russia. Obtained about March 20th, 1911...
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01 September 1931 Comments Notes 1 OBSERVE that in Vol. XX., p. 150, May n t h is mentioned as the earliest recorded date for a complete clutch of the Redbacked Shrike (Lanhis c. collurio). It is therefore of interest to record t h a t I personally took a clutch of five eggs on May 5th,...
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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...
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