Notes

01 December 1937 Comments Notes I FIRST noticed a Sky-Lark (Alauda a. arvensis) building amongst rough grass on the West Lancashire Golf Course on June 12th, 1937. The nest then consisted of a hollow in black earth with a partial rim and bottom lining of dry grass, Once when the hen wa...
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01 November 1937 Comments Notes W E have received the following notes additional to those already published on this subject (cf. antea, p. 149). KENT.--A bird which from the description appeared to be an immature female was seen by Mr. J. R. Tart at Dungeness early in June. SUSSEX.--A ...
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01 July 1937 Comments Notes (Regulus i. ignicapillus).--The skin of one picked up on Clifton Downs, Bristol, in the autumn of 1914 is in the Bristol Museum collections. It has only rarely been recorded from Gloucestershire. NORTHERN WILLOW-WARBLER (Phylloscopus trochilus acredula)....
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01 May 1932 Comments Notes IN the Practical Handbook of British Birds, Vol. I., p. 501, it is stated that " t h e British Dipper (Cinclus c, gularis) is very scarce in . . . Durham". This statement is certainly misleading, as the Dipper is plentifully distributed on the banks of a...
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