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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Notes

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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Letters

01 November 1933 Comments Letters SIRS,--I do not wish t o enter into a controversy with Mr. W. Raymond Philipson on the theoretical side of t h e above subject, which, it is agreed, needs much more observation in the field. If Mr. Philipson intends t o continue t h e work and would find ...
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Notes

01 November 1933 Comments Notes A PAIR of Starlings (Sturnus v. vulgaris) hatched their young in the roof of a dwelling-house adjoining my house at Cheddar, Somerset, on September 15th, 1933. This is the second brood in the same nest. The importance of this record seems to be that duri...
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