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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Notes

01 March 1933
Comments Notes IN an article on the Marsh- and Willow-Tits (antea, Vol. XXIV., p. 319), Mr. J. Walpole Bond stated that he had never seen or heard of a nest of a Marsh-Tit (Parus palustris dresseri) in masonry. It may, therefore, be of interest to record that I found s...
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Notes

01 January 1933
Comments Notes {Pastor roseus).--On September loth, 1932, a Rose-coloured Starling was seen by Mr. J. H. Stubbs in a grass field close to the village of North Cotes with a small flock of Starlings. He saw it at a very short distance and his description was so good that...
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