Notes

01 May 1963
Comments Notes FOE some years now I have been paying particular attention to the nestlings of common birds. It is of course now known to all ornithologists that the parents keep the nest clean (as a general rule) by carrying away the excrement, and often by swallowing ...
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Letters

01 May 1933
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n June, 1919, I found an undomed nest of a Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus c. collybita) with three young birds in a stunted hawthorn bush growing on a bankside near Wetheral, Cumberland. I t was a n open nest built of grasses and lined with feath...
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