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01 September 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to t h e article on " The Breeding-habits of t h e Dartford Warbler," and t o t h e statement on page 218, I have never seen a Dartford Warbler's nest in England, a n d know nothing of their habits in this country. I n t h e...

Reviews

01 September 1963 Comments Reviews British Diving Ducks. By J. G. Millais, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Vol. II. Seventeen coloured and twenty-five uneoloured plates. Longmans. In two volumes, £12 12s. net. IN our last volume (pp. 365-70) we gave an extended notice of the fisst part of Mr. Mill...

Notes

01 September 1963 Comments Notes A YOUNG drake Gadwall {Anas strepera) was shot on J a n u a r y 14th, 1913, a t Stretton. I saw t w o K n o t s (Canutus canutus) on October 12th, 1913, a t Bellfields Reservoir. I watched t h e m for some time through powerful glasses, a n d when one fle...

Erythrism in the Eggs of British Birds.

01 September 1963 Comments Main paper ALTHOUGH many scattered notes on this subject may be found in the various ornithological journals, very little has hitherto been done to collect these separate records; and beyond a short note by Adolf Kricheldorff in the Zeitschrift fur Oologie, XIII., ...

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 ...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

Erythrism in the Eggs of British Birds.

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)

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