Letter

01 December 1942
Comments Letters SIRS,--The interesting and unusual behavtour of a Moorhen (Galhnula ch, chloropus) continually remaining in a semi-submerged position (antea, Vol. xxxvi, p. 57) whilst swimming about, and giving the impression of " not being able to come up " is almost ce...
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Notes

01 December 1942
Comments Notes a short visit to Lundy in September, 1942, we identified a Lapland Bunting {Cakarius lapponicus) on the high barren area at the north end of the island on September ioth. The species has not previously been met with on Lundy, nor in the county of Devon. ...
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Reviews

01 November 1942
Comments Reviews An Ornithologist's Field Note Book. By Sir Hugh Gladstone. 6th Edition revised. (Truslove & Hanson). 6d. T H I S booklet (5 x 3 ins.) contains a list of the English names of all the regulär breeding British birds, winter visitors and passage-migrants. ...
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Notes

01 November 1942
Comments Notes SOMETIME ago my attention was attracted by the curious behaviour of a pair of Carrion-Crows (Corvus c. corone). They were on a house in one of the new housing estates near London, and were engaged in Walking or half-running up and down the sloping roof w...
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Notes

01 October 1942
Comments Notes ON May 25th, 1942, Mr. Arthur Whitaker discovered a typical nest of Lesser Redpoll (Carduelisf. cabaret) some five feet above the ground in a juniper bush in Inverness-shire. It was impossible that day to watch back the parents although the nest containe...
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Song Form in the Thrush Family

01 October 1942
Comments Main paper SOME time ago, I read of a German Professor who stated that the Blackbird (Turdus m. merula) composes some six hundred phrases every day. At that time I had not made a definite study of the song of the bird, but what I had heard did not seem to be in acco...
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