Notes

01 August 1936
Comments Notes A NEST of a Carrion-Crow (Corvus c. corone) in a willow tree in Walland Marsh, Kent, had a clutch of eggs which was taken on April 12th, 1936. On May 17th, the nest contained another clutch of eggs which were exactly like the first. The nest did not appe...
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Notes

01 November 1934
Comments Notes IN the Scottish Naturalist, 1926, p. 159, 0. H. Wild and J. M. McWilliam showed that the bills of the Twites (Carduelis flavirostris) in Islay, in the nesting-season, were not yellow, but definitely horn-coloured, with no trace of yellow. In May and June...
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Letters

01 October 1934
Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. R. L. Brown, in his interesting notes on the Kingfisher (antea, p. 83), reports a pair of birds having a clutch several days incubated when they had at the same time a brood in an adjacent nest. The experience especially interested me because t...
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Notes

01 November 1928
Comments Notes IN the following cases during 1928, from west Sussex, the period of incubation has been calculated from the day on which the last egg was laid until the day or days of hatching. The fledging-period from the day or days of hatching until the day or days o...
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