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01 September 1952 Comments Reviews The Sea Around Us. By Rachel L. Carson (Staples, 1951). 12s. 6d. I t is a remarkable indication of t h e growth of interest in the oceans t h a t this scientific account of them should have run through three impressions within the month of publication. It...

Notes

01 September 1952 Comments Notes Some notes on the behaviour of House-Sparrows.--These notes (which are additional to those already published, antea, vol. xliv, pp. 18-19 > 369-372) summarize intermittent observations on HouseSparrows (Passer domesticus) in Britain (work in progress) an...

Notes on the courtship display of Gulls

01 September 1952 Comments Main paper The Handbook deals in considerable detail with the display of the Herring-Gull (Larus argentatus) quoting the observations of Goethe, Portielje, and Darling. The notes on Common Gull (L. canus) and Great Black-backed Gull (L. marinus) refer mainly to the ...

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Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLIII. The Buff-backed Heron

01 September 1952 Comments Main paper (317) STUDIES OF SOME SPECIES RARELY PHOTOGRAPHED. XLIII. THE BUFF-BACKED HERON. {Photographed by G. K. YEATES). (Plates 65-70). The Buff-backed Heron (Ardeola ibis) has a more southerly range than the other herons on the British list, extending into Euro...

Patterns of spring migration

01 September 1952 Comments Main paper IN 1950 and again in 1951 the British Bird Observatories have exchanged information about the occurrences of selected species of birds. A study of this collated information appears to throw some light on the pattern of migration to and through the British...

Reports from bird observatories,1951

01 September 1952 Comments Main paper IN 1951 both spring and autumn movements were outstanding. Numbers of the commoner migrants, particularly of warblers in spring and of finches and thrushes in autumn, were well above the average, and there were many unusual occurrences. Altogether 133 spe...

Letters

01 September 1952 Comments Letters ---A sub-committee of t h e Natural History Section of the Wilts Archaelogical and Natural History Society has been formed to prepare a Check-List of Wiltshire Birds. I t would be grateful for any information your readers may have about collections of stu...

Letters

01 April 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. K. E. L. Simmons's letter (antea, p. 40) on this subject draws attention to reactions in trapped birds intermediate between remaining immobile on the open hand and the extreme, trance-like "death feigning". A further case may be of interest. On...

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01 April 1951 Comments Reviews Notes on the Birds of Warwickshire by C. A. Norris. (Cornish Brothers Ltd., Birmingham, 1947). 8s. 6d. THE only previous account of the birds of this county was that published by R. F. Tomes in the Victoria History of Warwickshire in 1904. The present lit...

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Notes on the courtship display of Gulls

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLIII. The Buff-backed Heron

Patterns of spring migration

Reports from bird observatories,1951

Letters

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