Notes

01 June 1954
Comments Notes female Scaup (Ay thy a tnarila) occurred at Cheddar reservoir, Somerset, on November 26th, 1952. The party had suddenly surfaced not more than twenty yards from the observer, and apparently becoming alarmed they quickly swam away, beginning as they did so...
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Letters

01 May 1930
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I witnessed here to-day (March 27th, 1930) another example of the stränge nuptial habits of the Hedge-Sparrow, first recorded in your pages b y m y friend, M. Delamain (antea, p. 19 ; see also pp. 103, 199, 231 and 255). On this occasion I...
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