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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Letters

01 February 1935
Comments Letters SIRS,--May I say something on this vexed subject ? I speak of those territorial species whose young depend upon insects for food. Three sets of facts seem connected :-- (i) T h a t in a cold and wet breeding season we find infertile eggs, chicks dead in t...
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Letters

01 January 1935
Comments Letters SIRS,--1 read with interest Mr. Rickman's note regarding the nesting oi the Pintail in Dumbartonshire (antea, p, 206). For many years I have kept and bred Pintail at Tullichewan, which is only about two or three miles from the spot where Mr. Rickman found...
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Notes

01 May 1929
Comments Notes IN April, 1926, close to my house in Mawgan-in-Pydar, north Cornwall, I found the nest of a Long-tailed Tit (Mgithalos c. rosea) in a low thorn bush, in process of construction. When incubation was commenced, I noticed the tip of the bird's tail projecti...
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