Notes

01 February 1956 Comments Notes Displacement coition in the Mallard.--On ioth May, 1951, a t Clayton-le-dale, near Blackburn, Lancashire, I was engaged in watching the behaviour of a pair of Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) tending fifteen young, which were newly hatched. T h e young fed fo...
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Notes

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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