Notes

01 August 1929 Comments Notes ON May 21st, 1929, from 11.30 a.m. to 6 p.m., I observed at close quarters a pair of Choughs (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) at nest on the north Cornish coast. Both parents were feeding nestlings, which were about eight days old. The weather was calm and soft...
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Letters

01 August 1929 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I am able t o confirm to some extent, and in one respect t o amplify, Mr. Rollin's interesting observations on the Fulmar Petrel (antea, p p . 31-3). A t five o'clock on t h e afternoon of July 14th, when I was scanning with a telescope the n...
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Notes

01 October 1928 Comments Notes THE attached Table shows the numbers of eggs in the clutch of various species found near Mawgan in Cornwall. The figures are taken from my diaries of the last four years and represent the clutches after full incubation had commenced. It has been my habit...
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