Notes

01 August 1931
Comments Notes ON June 2nd, 1931, I was able to identify an Ortolan Bunting (Emberiza hortulana) on Skokholm. As it was in an exhausted state I was able to examine it from within three yards, as it rested in a niche of my garden wall. The small, reddisri bill was unmis...
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Notes

01 June 1931
Comments Notes ON May 14th, 1931, a Hawfinch {Coccothraustes c. coccoihraustes), apparently a male, flew across in front of my car on the Perth-Blairgowrie road, about if miles from Perth. As far as I am aware this is the first record in the county for about five years...
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01 May 1929
Comments Notes IN April, 1926, close to my house in Mawgan-in-Pydar, north Cornwall, I found the nest of a Long-tailed Tit (Mgithalos c. rosea) in a low thorn bush, in process of construction. When incubation was commenced, I noticed the tip of the bird's tail projecti...
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