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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 ...

Firecrests in Britain, 1952-1953

01 October 1954 Comments Main paper T H I S paper follows the pattern of similar papers published in this journal in recent years dealing with the occurrence, on migration in the British Isles, of a selected species, or group of species. The Handbook (Vol. I, pp. 319-320) describes the Fire...

Editorial

01 October 1954 Comments Editorials IT has for a long time been becoming increasingly obvious that the production of a first-rate monthly Magazine to provide " a current history of British B i r d s " can no longer be treated as a spare-time task. Even before 1943 H. F . Witherby found it ...

Letters

01 October 1950 Comments Letters --I am engaged in investigating t h e ringing records of Blue Tits. Amongst the known causes of death it is astonishing to find that the mousetrap is a principal one. I t may be necessary to place r a t and mouse traps in gardens, b u t I suggest that the...

Notes

01 October 1950 Comments Notes WITH reference to the note (antea, p. 54) on this topic, in June, 1949, an Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura) made repeated stoops at my companion, Dr. H. K. Whitehouse, while he was standing by the bank of the river in Hvalfjordur a few yards from our camp in...

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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)

Firecrests in Britain, 1952-1953

Editorial

Letters

Notes

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