Notes

01 September 1962
Comments Notes Shelduck moulting in breeding area.--On 9th July 1961, in an area of extensive fresh grazing marshes in north Kent, I noticed an adult male Shelduck (Tadorna tadornd) swimming along the edge of a large fleet. The knob on its bill had regressed, but it was...
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Territory Reviewed

01 December 1933
Comments Main paper I T is now some twenty-five years since the theory of " territory " in bird life was enunciated b y Eliot Howard (1907-14, 1920, 1929) as the result of his intensive study of the behaviour of some of the Warblers and Buntings. The attractive nature of the...
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