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01 October 1939 Comments Notes FOR some years a pair of Grey Wagtails (Motacilla c. cinerea) have nested in and round a house in Ireland choosing as sites the window ledges of upstairs windows or the thick stems of a Virginian creeper, the nest being either built along a branch or in ...

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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...

Movements of Ringed birds from Abroad to the British Islands and from the British Islands Abroad

01 May 1932 Comments Main paper This is the iirst Siskin ringed abroad which has been reported here. M. C. Dupond informs me t h a t there is proof from ringing t h a t some of the Siskins found as migrants in Belgium are Scandinavian breeding birds.This record has considerable interest...

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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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