Reviews

01 February 1964
Comments Reviews A Study of Bird Song. By Edward A. Armstrong. Oxford University Press, London, 1963. x i v + 3 3 5 pages; 17 plates; 43 figures and 14 tables. 45 s. Far more work has been done on the vocal behaviour of birds than of all other animals combined. Much of it...
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Notes

01 February 1964
Comments Notes Unusual numbers of sea-birds at Teesmouth in August 1962.--In August 1962 huge concentrations of Sprats Clupea sprattus appeared in the bay and estuary of the River Tees, on the border of Co. Durham and Yorkshire. Many of the fish entering the mouth of th...
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Oystercatchers and Mussels

01 February 1964
Comments Main paper I N T H E S U M M E R O F 1961, on the Drigg Peninsula near Ravenglass, Cumberland, a pair of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostrakgus made their nest on a relatively bare sandy area about eight yards square and surrounded by a dense growth of nettles Urtica s...
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