Notes

01 May 1960 Comments Notes Broken e g g s i n nests of Sparrowhawk.--I can add two records to Dr. D . A. Ratcliffe's list (Brit. Birds, 53: 128-129) of broken eggs of Sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus), one of them showing that the phenomenon goes back some time. On 7th June 1927, near...
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01 December 1940 Comments Notes DURING a visit to Achill Island from June 6th to 16th, 1938, I made records of species seen, and my observations may be of interest as a supplement to the paper by Mr. R. S. R. Fitter in the issue of British Birds for November, 1940. I covered most of th...
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01 September 1940 Comments Notes EARLY in May, 1940, a pair of Crossbills (Loxia c. curvirostra) were seen about a garden near Woking and on the n t h both male and female were watched feeding a recently fledged brood, which was later found to number five young. On the 13th the male bro...
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