Letters

01 November 1960 Comments Letters "Kestrel pellets at a winter roost" Sirs,--I read with interest the paper by T. A. W. Davis on his examination of pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) at winter roosts in Pembrokeshire {Brit. Birds, 53: 281-284). May I, however, make one small correcti...
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Notes

01 June 1959 Comments Notes residence in Shetland we took counts about once a week for two years of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) on an area of cliffs in southwest Mainland. The counts are given in full and discussed in The Fulmar (1952) by James Fisher (pp. 347 and 482-488). These F...
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Notes

01 February 1956 Comments Notes Displacement coition in the Mallard.--On ioth May, 1951, a t Clayton-le-dale, near Blackburn, Lancashire, I was engaged in watching the behaviour of a pair of Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) tending fifteen young, which were newly hatched. T h e young fed fo...
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