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Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper O N August 7th, 1944, while studying birds on the salt-marsh round Tetney Creek, Lines., on the Humber estuary, I observed two or three smallish diving-duck which puzzled me ; and on August 8th, independently, S/Ldr. Peter Hill saw the birds in the same p...

Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper THROUGH the kindness of Mr. M. C. Harman, the owner, and by permission of the Admiralty the writers were able to spend from July 2nd to loth, 1942, on Lundy. The primary object was to investigate the status of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus p. puffinus),'...

The " British Birds" Marking Scheme

01 March 1935 Comments Main paper is, as will be seen by the above figures, another large increase in 1934 in the annual total of birds ringed. The number of birds " trapped " has now risen to 36 per cent, of the total ringed. The number of Passeres ringed is nearly double that of all oth...

On the habits of Kingfishers

01 March 1935 Comments Main paper THE following records and data concerning the Kingfisher (Alcedo a. ispida) were collected on the White Cart (Renfrewshire) during 1934, except where otherwise indicated. When a number is enclosed in brackets it shows whether a first, second or third broo...

Birds of inner London

01 March 1935 Comments Main paper T H R E E species, all of which occurred last year, must be added to the list published in this magazine in 1929 (Vol. X X I I . , pp. 222-244) a n d subsequently extended. A Goldeneye (Bucephala c. clangula) which appeared on the Round Pond, Kensington G...

Notes on Colour Variation and Habits of Short-eared Owl

01 March 1935 Comments Main paper (Plate 3). April and May, 1934, I was engaged in studying Short-eared Owls (Asio f. flammeus) on a forest at Newcastleton, in Roxburghshire, in the course of an enquiry in which the British Trust for Ornithology is co-operating with the Oxford University ...

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