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 April 1948 Comments Notes IN a recent volume of British Birds (antea. Vol. xxxix, pp. 212 and 340) records are given of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) nesting in heronries. I should like to record that for several years up to 1942, a pair of Ravens nested in a circle of tall pines cont...
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Notes

01 August 1946 Comments Notes As there is no mention in The Handbook of British Birds of a female Greenfinch (Chloris ch. chloris) singing, the following may be worthy of note. 1 have in my garden near Crawley, Sussex, a nest of this species in a cypress-tree, which hatched on May 21...
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