Letters

01 April 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,--Messrs. Wagstaffe and Williamson's paper (antea, Vol. xl, p p . 322-325), on t h e cabinet colour changes in bird skins, will be read b y all workers in systematic ornithology with great interest. That these changes occur is of course well known, a...
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Notes

01 November 1939 Comments Notes FOR some seven years I have marked Chaffinches (Fringilla c. gengleri) frequenting my garden with coloured rings for identification. One pair so marked mated and fed young in a copse opposite my gate in June, 1937. In the spring of 1938 the same pair nes...
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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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