Notes

01 November 1947 Comments Notes ON a fine morning in April, 1946, a number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula), Song-Thrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) and Starlings (Siurnus v. vulgaris) were watched while feeding on a large lawn of King's College, Cambridge. The Starlings spent most of the...
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The Growth of a young Cuckoo

01 November 1947 Comments Main paper A SERIES of observations was made in June, 1946, upon the growth of a young Cuckoo (Cuculus c. canorus) in the nest of a HedgeSparrow (Prunella modularis occidentalis) near Oxford. The nest was in one of the dividing privet hedges of the back gardens of a...
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