Notes

01 November 1942
Comments Notes SOMETIME ago my attention was attracted by the curious behaviour of a pair of Carrion-Crows (Corvus c. corone). They were on a house in one of the new housing estates near London, and were engaged in Walking or half-running up and down the sloping roof w...
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Notes

01 April 1941
Comments Notes THE recoveries of ringed Redwings (Turdus musicus), though still few, are of sufficient interest to bring together in a separate note. No recovery of a ringed Redwing was reported until early in 1938, although up to that time 576 had been marked. Then tw...
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Notes

01 February 1939
Comments Notes IT is a well-known fact that the Moustached Warbler (Lusciniola m. melanofogon) often builds its nest among reeds under the knots made by fishermen tying reeds together in Hungary, as stated in The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. II, p. 30). On a visit t...
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Notes

01 April 1929
Comments Notes IN previous notes in British Birds on egg-daubing by the Jackdaw {Colceus m. spermologus) I can find no record of first and second layings of the same bird in the same season having been found bedaubed: so the following instance may be of interest. The f...
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