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 November 1934
Comments Notes IN the Scottish Naturalist, 1926, p. 159, 0. H. Wild and J. M. McWilliam showed that the bills of the Twites (Carduelis flavirostris) in Islay, in the nesting-season, were not yellow, but definitely horn-coloured, with no trace of yellow. In May and June...
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Notes

01 September 1934
Comments Notes A BLUE T I T (ParUS C. obscurus) had possession of one of my nesting boxes in Hampshire and laid an egg on each of four successive days. The next day, May 8th, no egg was laid, but another appeared on the 9th. I should say that I numbered each egg the da...
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Notes

01 January 1934
Comments Notes THE Tree-Sparrow (Passer m, montanus) is sparingly distributed in Leicestershire, and up to November 19th, 1933, I had never met with more than six or seven together at one time, although I have heard of a flock of about forty being seen on the Melton si...
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