Search

Letters

01 March 1963 Comments Letters SIES,--Mr. Glegg's note in your current number (Vol. VII., p. 56) concerning the nest of this species which he found beside one of the reservoirs a t Walthamstow on J u n e 11th, hardly does full justice to the extraordinary wealth of bird-life to be seen...

Notes

01 March 1963 Comments Notes IT is gratifying to see Mr. C. S. Meares's note on th Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) breeding in Shropshire an Norfolk (British Birds, Vol. VI., p. 371), and to find that i has also bred in Surrey (Countryside, Vol. V., p. 387). Ther can be no doubt as...

The Sequence of Plumages of the Common Eider

01 March 1963 Comments Main paper accounts have appeared in the works of naturalists on the subject of the plumage of the male and female Eider (Somateria m. mollissima) and the age at which the sexes arrive at maturity. In nearly all of these there is much guesswork owing to the small se...

Obituary: The Late Philip Lutley Sclater

01 March 1963 Comments Obituaries W E greatly regret to announce the death, on June 27th, 1913, as the result of a carriage accident, of Philip Lutley Sclater, D.Sc, F.R.S., at the age of eightythree years. The loss of so eminent an ornithologist will be deeply felt by all bird-lovers, an...

Reviews

01 October 1954 Comments Reviews Cheltenham and District Naturalists' Society. Report for 1951-1952. Obtainable from L. W. Hayward, 40 High Street, Prestbury, Cheltenham. 2s. 6d. WHILE we welcome this first printed bird report from Cheltenham for 1951 and 1952 we must look forward to far...

Notes

01 October 1954 Comments Notes and David Lack have given data showing that the times of arrival of greatest numbers of certain Passerines at the Kentish Knock Lightship and on the S.E. coast of England strongly suggest that they left the Continental coast at dawn (antea, vol. xlvi, pp....

Falco columbarius subaesalon brehm: A valid race

01 October 1954 Comments Main paper T H I S study arises directly out of the routine enquiries into problems of bird migration which are carried out at the Fair Isle Bird Observatory. In consequence it has been made with the needs of bird observatories in mind, for characters such as slight...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds. LIX. Night Heron

01 October 1954 Comments Main paper (Plates 53-59). T H E Night Heron {Nycticordx nycticorax) h a s a very wide breeding' range, being' found not only in Europe, but in many parts of southern Asia as far as Japan and certain islands in the Pacific, in North and South America and in Africa. ...

Linguistic notes on "Fulmar"

01 October 1954 Comments Main paper IN his remarkable monograph The Fulmar, James Fisher quotes (p. 121) the first mention of the bird (Fulmarus glacialis) in English literature. The quotation is from Martin Martin's book A late Voyage to St. Kilda (1698), where we read: " T h i s isle abou...

Obituary: Arthur Holte Macpherson (1867-1953)

01 October 1954 Comments Obituaries be long remembered for his pioneer work in studying- the birds of the central London parks and the reservoirs of the Thames Valley. His interest in birds was lifelong, for while an undergraduate at Oxford, he contributed notes to O . V . Aplin's Birds of ...

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now

Search

Letters

Notes

The Sequence of Plumages of the Common Eider

Obituary: The Late Philip Lutley Sclater

Reviews

Notes

Falco columbarius subaesalon brehm: A valid race

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds. LIX. Night Heron

Linguistic notes on "Fulmar"

Obituary: Arthur Holte Macpherson (1867-1953)

Sign Up to our Newsletter