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01 January 1990 Comments Reviews Birds of North Rona and Sula Sgeir. By Seabirds at Sea Team: Stuart Benn, Stuart Murray and Mark L. Tasker. (Nature Conservancy Council, Peterborough, 1989. 47 pages. Paperback £5.00). A remarkably comprehensive and concise publication on two of Scotl...

Notes

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Reviews

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Obituaries: Norman Frederick Ticehurst

01 September 1970 Comments Main paper It is now more than a year since Dr Norman Ticehurst passed away in a nursing home at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, on 5 th December 1969, at the great age of 96 years. He had had such a long life that none of his contemporaries remained and there are few p...

Notes

01 September 1969 Comments Notes Fish jumping into Heron's mouth On 16th August 1969, at Talybont Reservoir, Breconshire, we saw a Heron Ardea cinerea standing on the edge of a small concrete 'waterfall' about two feet high; it was leaning forward in such a manner that its open bill was ...

Letters

01 February 1966 Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...

Some Comments on the problems of separating Reed and Marsh Warblers

01 May 1965 Comments Main paper [ T H E FOUR LETTERS which follow form a kind of special symposium on the difficulties of distinguishing Marsh Warblers Acrocephalus palustris and Reed Warblers A. sdrpaceus by their songs and even in the hand. When we received the first from K. Atkin and...

Notes

01 July 1962 Comments Notes Water Rail killing Little Stint and Eel.--With reference to the recent notes on Water Rails (Rallus aquaticus) killing a Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) and other small Passerines {Brit. Birds, 55: 132-133 and 165), I should like to record that on 4th Sept...

Notes

01 May 1962 Comments Notes Wilson's Phalarope in Cornwall.--Early on the morning of 15 th June 1961 J.E.B. came across an unfamiliar medium-sized wader with plain brown upper-parts and a dull white rump and tail, on Marazion Marsh, Cornwall. He contacted Dr. G. Allsop and between t...

Reviews

01 March 1961 Comments Reviews Atlas of European Birds. By K. H . Voous. N e l s o n , London, i960. 284 pages; 419 maps and 355 photographs. 70s. One of the post-war developments in ornithology has been the attention given to bird distribution. There has been a growing realisation of ...