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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Letters

01 August 1937
Comments Letters SIRS,---In a footnote to m y note on ". Incubation Period of WaterRail", (antea, p. 62), " F.C.R.J." states: " Incubation does not always begin with the completion of the clutch". Over 30 years' experience in finding and showing t h e nest of this species...
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Notes

01 September 1936
Comments Notes IN a wood running along the top of a hill in Surrey which I visited on June 24th, 1936, I heard a Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) singing in a tall conifer, and as soon as he stopped a Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella ncevia) started to reel in the un...
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