Notes

01 September 1939
Comments Notes PROOF of the sex of the bird choosing the nesting-site is generally so difficult to obtain that it seems worth while to record some evidence in the case of a House-Sparrow (Passer d. domesticus) in my garden in the spring of 1939. Early in March I notice...
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Letters

01 December 1928
Comments Letters SIRS,--Will you kindly allow me space to make enquiries concerning the present whereabouts of a clutch of two eggs of the Honey-Buzzard taken in the Quantocks, Somerset, on June 25th, 1899. These eggs were sold a t Stevens's on April 25th, 1906, ex collec...
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Notes

01 December 1928
Comments Notes T H E following incubation- and fledging-periods were obtained in 1928 (A) in west Sussex, (B) in north Wilts.; the incubation-periods being calculated from the day on which the last egg was laid and the fledging-periods from the day or days of hatching ...
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