Notes

01 January 1935
Comments Notes I N connexion with Mr. Bertram Lloyd's note on this subject (antea, pp. 206-7), the following m a y be of interest:-- On October 17th, 1930, while watching duck on the Gosforth Park Bird Sanctuary lake, Northumberland, I noticed a couple of female Shovel...
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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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Notes

01 April 1933
Comments Notes ONE always associates the Raven (Corvus corax) with extreme intelligence, but not so a pair (or its yearly successors, for many are destroyed round here by gamekeepers, etc.) that breed in a secluded Denbighshire gorge, not many miles away from my home. ...
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Letters

01 February 1933
Comments Letters SIRS,---1 am in possession of letters relating to the birds of the following districts and if application is made to me a t the address below I am prepared to post them to those who may be sufficiently interested. Bedfordshire, Berks., Bucks., Cornwall, C...
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