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01 February 1961 Comments Letters The Len Howard Appeal Sirs--All readers of Miss Len Howard's books Birds as Individuals and Living with Birds have been distressed to learn that her life's work is threatened by building on the land next to her garden sanctuary. For twenty-one years Miss ...

Observation on Sand-Martins at the Nest

01 September 1939 Comments Main paper in the Sand-Martin (Riparia r. riparia) is said to be " by both sexes but positive data scanty" (F. C. R. Jourdain, 1938)* ; males had been found on eggs by Stoner {1936), but the nature of their participation in the brooding was not ascertained. We had a...

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01 September 1939 Comments Notes PROOF of the sex of the bird choosing the nesting-site is generally so difficult to obtain that it seems worth while to record some evidence in the case of a House-Sparrow (Passer d. domesticus) in my garden in the spring of 1939. Early in March I notice...

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Observation on Sand-Martins at the Nest

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