Notes

01 May 1929 Comments Notes IN April, 1926, close to my house in Mawgan-in-Pydar, north Cornwall, I found the nest of a Long-tailed Tit (Mgithalos c. rosea) in a low thorn bush, in process of construction. When incubation was commenced, I noticed the tip of the bird's tail projecti...
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Letters

01 December 1928 Comments Letters SIRS,--Will you kindly allow me space to make enquiries concerning the present whereabouts of a clutch of two eggs of the Honey-Buzzard taken in the Quantocks, Somerset, on June 25th, 1899. These eggs were sold a t Stevens's on April 25th, 1906, ex collec...
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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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