Notes

01 December 1937 Comments Notes I FIRST noticed a Sky-Lark (Alauda a. arvensis) building amongst rough grass on the West Lancashire Golf Course on June 12th, 1937. The nest then consisted of a hollow in black earth with a partial rim and bottom lining of dry grass, Once when the hen wa...
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Kittiwakes as shore-birds

01 December 1937 Comments Main paper staying at Seascale, Cumberland, in August, 1937, I discovered a place on the coast at Sellafield, where quantities of sea-birds were always to be seen. In addition to thousands of Curlews and Oyster-catchers and many Redshanks, Lapwings, Turnstones and o...
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Notes

01 October 1928 Comments Notes THE attached Table shows the numbers of eggs in the clutch of various species found near Mawgan in Cornwall. The figures are taken from my diaries of the last four years and represent the clutches after full incubation had commenced. It has been my habit...
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