Notes

01 September 1933 Comments Notes RAYMOND PHILIPSON'S paper on Rooks and their roosts in South Northumberland (antea, p. 66) prompts me to forward some notes I made in the same area nearly thirty years ago. From 1904 to 1906 I lived on the west side of Newcastle. Rooks were notable birds...
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01 August 1929 Comments Notes ON May 21st, 1929, from 11.30 a.m. to 6 p.m., I observed at close quarters a pair of Choughs (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) at nest on the north Cornish coast. Both parents were feeding nestlings, which were about eight days old. The weather was calm and soft...
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01 April 1929 Comments Notes IN previous notes in British Birds on egg-daubing by the Jackdaw {Colceus m. spermologus) I can find no record of first and second layings of the same bird in the same season having been found bedaubed: so the following instance may be of interest. The f...
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