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01 December 1944 Comments Notes I HAVE previously (antea, Vol. xxxiii, p. 265) given examples from the Robin (Erithacus rubecula) and the Blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix) of a male attempting to disturb the coition of another pair. Similar behaviour is characteristic of geese and swans, as n...
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01 August 1943 Comments Notes As already briefly noted (antea Vol. xxxvi, p. 225) Crossbills (Loxia c. curvirostra) were reported in various districts in unusual numbers in the late summer and autumn of 1942. In response to our request, observers have sent information, details of whi...
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01 February 1943 Comments Notes IN February, 1942, seventy-five nesting boxes were put up inone of the oak woods of the Forest of Dean, with the object of encouraging the breeding of insectivorous birds (tits, in particular) and thus alleviating, if possible, the recurrent outbreaks of...
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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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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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01 August 1937 Comments Notes "--As many ornithologists are already aware a new edition of A Practical Handbook of British Birds has been for some time in preparation. We should be very grateful to any of our readers who would now send us notes of any omissions or errors in the origin...
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01 July 1937 Comments Notes (Regulus i. ignicapillus).--The skin of one picked up on Clifton Downs, Bristol, in the autumn of 1914 is in the Bristol Museum collections. It has only rarely been recorded from Gloucestershire. NORTHERN WILLOW-WARBLER (Phylloscopus trochilus acredula)....
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01 August 1936 Comments Notes A NEST of a Carrion-Crow (Corvus c. corone) in a willow tree in Walland Marsh, Kent, had a clutch of eggs which was taken on April 12th, 1936. On May 17th, the nest contained another clutch of eggs which were exactly like the first. The nest did not appe...
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01 July 1936 Comments Notes CROSSBILLS' METHOD OF FEEDING, A NOTE in the June number of British Birds (Vol. XXX., p. 27) by B. D. Moreton, tempts me to carry the observations a little farther by publishing a few notes made as long ago as 1888 on the method of feeding of some Crossbi...
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01 February 1935 Comments Notes FOR the last few years I have examined a number of Jays killed in Essex, in the hope of finding the Continental form. On November 22nd, 1934, one, a female, was shot at Longwood, Layer Marney, Essex, which had the lower mantle and back greyer than usual....
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