Letters

01 February 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--For exactly a fortnight--May 14th to 27th, 1913-- a mysterious bird was heard calling from the marshy border of Betton Pool, near Shrewsbury. Cartwright, the keeper, an observant man, who is familiar with the notes of all the ordinary water-fowl (w...
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Reviews

01 February 1963 Comments Reviews and XI. Jahres-berichte (1910 and 1911) der Vogelwarte Rossitten. J. Thienemann. Journal fur Orniihologie, 1911, pp. 621-707 , and 1912, pp. 133-243, 431-470; and Sonderheft, 1913. T H E reports of the Rossitten station are increasing in bulk, and each o...
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Notes

01 February 1963 Comments Notes T H E following two records of marked Starlings have so far not been published except in t h e German reports :-- Vog. Rossitten No. 108 : marked in the nest on J u n e 10th, 1909, a t Lisden, near Wolmar, Livonia, Russia. Obtained about March 20th, 1911...
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Letters

01 March 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--We were interested to read Mr. Nelder's letter in your November, 1952, number (antea, vol. xlv, p. 430) and feel we should like to dispel any idea that possible bias in the collection of records is not already fully appreciated by those responsible...
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Reviews

01 March 1953 Comments Reviews The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1951. The first seven pages of this report are occupied by an account of the various concerted inquiries by the Society the utility of which it is not possible to evaluate from a single years' work. This must be l...
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Reviews

01 March 1953 Comments Reviews Check-List of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. Prepared b y the List Sub-Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union. (B.O.U., 1952). Obtainable from H. F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., 7s. 6d. This list is the result of work begun about 6 years ago. It ...
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