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- [male symbol] Antilocapra [underlined] skull; martes pennanti [underlined];
Didelphis skeleton, Procyon skulls,
Adult Ambystoma [underlined] etc [etcetera]
Nov [November] 21-23. I lectured in St Andrews [words crossed out] Aberdeen on the evening of
the 21st, about 56 people present at the S.O.C. [Scottish Ornithologists' Club]
branch there. Stayed with [Vero Copner] Wynne-Edwards + had
a most enjoyable time. On Saturday we drove
up the Don Valley to Balmoral + then climbed
the lower slopes of Lochnagar. The afternoon
was heavily overcast but very pleasant
until the snow came on a high wind at
3 PM At that time we were at 2500' +/- +
had been in snow from 1000'+/- There was
about a foot at the higher levels. It was
slightly crusted + everywhere you looked the
red grouse were in evidence. At an
elevation a few yards above the grouse
were the Ptarmigan. All together I counted
about 350 grouse, 12 blackgame, 30 ptarmigan
1 roe a dozen red deer, 3 [male symbol] bullfinch, 2 doz [dozen]
coal tits.
One of [Vero Copner] Wynne Edwards' students has just
completed an excellent job on the reproductive +
feeding behaviour of starling. He found that
the role of the male during nest building was
clean up man + everything that did not belong,
including eggs, was thrown out. The [female symbol] spends
the first day of laying defending her egg
Marginalia: See over for Nov [November] 18
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