Letters

01 January 1938
Comments Letters SIRS,---Miss Hibbert-Ware (Little Owl Inquiry, antea, pp. 215-216) prefaces her remarks on Little Owls 011 Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, with the w o r d s : " T h e following incident seems, however, t o contradict these conclusions [that t h e Little ...
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Reviews

01 January 1938
Comments Reviews Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow. Vol. I. A Population Study of the Song Sparrow. By Margaret M. Nice. Transactions of the Linnean Society of New York, IV : April 1937. 2 47PP- 3 plates, 18 charts, 33 tables. (American Museum of Natural His...
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Notes

01 January 1938
Comments Notes As there is apparently no previous record for the Outer Hebrides, it may be of interest to report that a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) was killed in North Uist on October 27th, 1937, and that I saw another at Newton Lodge, North Uist, on No...
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Morning song commencement

01 January 1938
Comments Main paper THE following records, which show the times at which certain birds begin to sing in the early morning, were obtained at Hartley, near Gravesend, Kent, in the spring of 1937. An attempt was made to take these records at frequent intervals (two or three tim...
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