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 March 1938 Comments Notes I HAVE paid particular attention to the singing of Crossbills (Loxia c. curvirostra) for some years, on and off, and I find that the song can be divided into four main varieties. In attempting to describe these songs below, I use the two sound descriptio...
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01 April 1935 Comments Notes THE following notes on the Tree-Sparrow (Passer m. montanus), near Great Budworth, Cheshire, were made at the same colony as the notes in British Birds, XXV., 278-285 ; XXVI., 273-4; XXVII., 259-60. Return to nesting-trees.--First seen on February 18th; ...
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