Notes

01 April 1938 Comments Notes I FIND that Mr. H. G. Alexander's Chart of Bird-Song (antea, Vol. XXIX, p. 194) has no record of the song of the Grey Wagtail (Motacilla c. cinerea) between mid-January and mid-March. The report of a song which I heard at 5.20 p.m. on February 24th, 1938...
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01 May 1933 Comments Notes As the Jackdaw (Colceusm. spermologus) is a bird not usually subject to variation, some notes on a local variety seen at Douglas may be of interest. These white-winged Jackdaws are best described as having on the outer primary a white spot or " mirror " e...
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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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