Notes

01 December 1940 Comments Notes DURING a visit to Achill Island from June 6th to 16th, 1938, I made records of species seen, and my observations may be of interest as a supplement to the paper by Mr. R. S. R. Fitter in the issue of British Birds for November, 1940. I covered most of th...
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01 August 1940 Comments Notes ON June 4th, 1940, on a common in Cheshire I found a nest of a Tree-Pipit (Anthus t. trivialis) with recently hatched young. The parent bird sat very close after going down with food, whilst I was searching for the nest; when it left the nest it fluttere...
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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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