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 December 1937 Comments Notes I FIRST noticed a Sky-Lark (Alauda a. arvensis) building amongst rough grass on the West Lancashire Golf Course on June 12th, 1937. The nest then consisted of a hollow in black earth with a partial rim and bottom lining of dry grass, Once when the hen wa...
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01 July 1937 Comments Notes (Regulus i. ignicapillus).--The skin of one picked up on Clifton Downs, Bristol, in the autumn of 1914 is in the Bristol Museum collections. It has only rarely been recorded from Gloucestershire. NORTHERN WILLOW-WARBLER (Phylloscopus trochilus acredula)....
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