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01 August 1953 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I was most interested to read the account by J. D. Macdonald of t h e recovery of an albatross in Derbyshire (antea, pp. I I O - I I I ) and to see the accompanying photograph (plate 13), because in m y opinion the bird was a Yellow-nosed Alb...

Notices and Requests for Information

01 August 1953 Comments Editorials Unusual passage of Firecrests.--It is evident t h a t a quite unusual number of Firecrests (Regulus ignicapillus) passed through the south and south-east of Britain, particularly in the region of the coast, during the late autumn of 1952 and the spring of...

Review

01 August 1953 Comments Reviews The Birds of Lancashire. By Clifford Oakes. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1953). 21s. od. One cannot fail to be impressed by the wealth of information which is presented here, and the care with which it has evidently been sifted. Local distribution, of cours...

Notes

01 August 1953 Comments Notes On the feeding habits of the Redshank and the Spotted Redshank.-- Observations were made on the feeding of Redshank (Tringa totanus) and Spotted Redshank (T. erythropus) on a shallow, tideless mud lagoon surrounded by reeds. The method employed was to ob...

Report on bird-ringing for 1952

01 August 1953 Comments Main paper This is the sixteenth reportf issued on behalf of the Committee, continuing the earlier sequence under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme." It combines a report on the progress of ringing during 1952, with a selected list of recent recovery reco...

Letter

01 March 1945 Comments Letters SIRS,--I am collecting all the information I can on clutch size and nesting success in the Robin (Erithacus rubecula), and should be very grateful for any unpublished information which readers could supply. Every nest record is of value, both from Britain...

Reviews

01 March 1945 Comments Reviews Ornithological Report for Northumberland and Durham for 1943. Compiled by G. W. Temperley (The Naturalist, July-September, 1944). I N spite of war-time curtailment of opportunities for bird observation this carefully compiled report contains a noteworthy...

Notes

01 March 1945 Comments Notes IN reference to Mr. David Lack's note on Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula) singing in London at the end of January (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p. 116), in some parts of London such as Kensington, where there are many houses with gardens, it is quite exceptional fo...

Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper O N August 7th, 1944, while studying birds on the salt-marsh round Tetney Creek, Lines., on the Humber estuary, I observed two or three smallish diving-duck which puzzled me ; and on August 8th, independently, S/Ldr. Peter Hill saw the birds in the same p...

Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper THROUGH the kindness of Mr. M. C. Harman, the owner, and by permission of the Admiralty the writers were able to spend from July 2nd to loth, 1942, on Lundy. The primary object was to investigate the status of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus p. puffinus),'...

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Report on bird-ringing for 1952

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Reviews

Notes

Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

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