Notes

01 September 1934 Comments Notes A BLUE T I T (ParUS C. obscurus) had possession of one of my nesting boxes in Hampshire and laid an egg on each of four successive days. The next day, May 8th, no egg was laid, but another appeared on the 9th. I should say that I numbered each egg the da...
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Notes

01 January 1934 Comments Notes THE Tree-Sparrow (Passer m, montanus) is sparingly distributed in Leicestershire, and up to November 19th, 1933, I had never met with more than six or seven together at one time, although I have heard of a flock of about forty being seen on the Melton si...
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Letters

01 January 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--May I be spared a little space to invite the attention of your readers to the Annual Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. This Report, the last issue of which you were good enough t...
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Notes

01 January 1929 Comments Notes ON May 4th, 1928, I watched a Goldfinch (Carduelis c. britannica) snapping off the stalks, about two inches from the head, of some " Forget-me-nots " (Myosotis) in our garden in west Sussex. The bird, which was accompanied by a second bird, soon flew off...
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