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 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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01 February 1933 Comments Notes ON May ist, 1932, at Leathcrcote Point, St. Margarets-atCliffe, 1 came across a bird which 1 identified as an Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris). It remained for some considerable time in the same area around some small low-lying bushes on the cliff edg...
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