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Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed: XV. The Bar-tailed Godwit

01 July 1948 Comments Main paper (Plates 23-30). I T is safe to claim that the series-of photographs of the Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa I. lapponica) which we are now able t o publish is quite unique, showing the birds, as it does, on their remote breeding-ground in Lapland, with nest and ...

British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

01 July 1948 Comments Main paper Recovered. Beauly 21.8.39 (Inverness) 24.9.38 Coldstream (Berwick) 20.11.39 Ditto 24.9.38 Dundrennan 20.1,40 (Kirkcudbr.) Ditto 23.8,41 Sloothby (Lines.) 5.12.45 Ditto 21.8.37 Cjueenborough 11.10.39 (Kent) Ditto "Â·9-37 Pulborough 24.12.39 (Sussex) Ditt...

The Larder of the Red-Backed Shrike

01 July 1948 Comments Main paper BECAUSE of the habit of pinning up spare food on thorns the Red-backed Shrike (Lanius c. collurio) was far better known in Essex, when I lived there, as the Larder Bird. Unfortunately it has become so scarce there that few of the present generation have a...

Vital Statistics of the Mochrum Cormorant Colony

01 July 1948 Comments Main paper T H E breeding-colony of Cormorants (Phalacrocorax c. carbo) to which this paper refers is situated on low rocky islands in the Castle Loch in the parish of Mochrum, Wigtownshire. The birds have bred there probably for a very long time. They were there in...

Letters

01 July 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,---In an article on this subject (antea Vol. xl, pp. 62-4) A. Whitaker cites as examples of abnormality two diving descents by Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) and Jackdaws (C, monedula spermologus) from an estimated height of 600-700 feet to a freshly p...

Reviews

01 July 1948 Comments Reviews The Scottish Naturalist, Vol. Ix, No. i, April, 1948. Edited by Prof. V. C. Wynne-Edwards and Dr. J. W. Campbell. It is with real pleasure that we welcome the re-appearance of this old established and excellent journal under the able editorship of Prof. V...

Notes

01 July 1948 Comments Notes DURING the spring of 1947 I saw what certainly appeared to be bigamous behaviour by a male Rook (Corvus f. frugilegus) Unfortunately, the observations were rather disjointed, a continuous watch not being possible. On March 14th a well-advanced nest was s...

Letters

01 December 1937 Comments Letters SIRS,--In his article (antea, p . 137) Mr. George Brown notes t h a t a Robin {Erithacus r. melophilus) "appeared t o take quite an interest in the Blackbird's efiorts" before a looking-glass, b u t itself never displayed. Since I read this article a Robi...

Reviews

01 December 1937 Comments Reviews More Songs of Wild Birds. By E. M. Nicholson and Ludwig Koch. (H. F . & G. Witherby.) Gramophone Records and Illustrated. 15s. PERHAPS the best thing t h a t can be said of these three new double records of British Bird songs is t h a t they are even bett...

Notes

01 December 1937 Comments Notes I FIRST noticed a Sky-Lark (Alauda a. arvensis) building amongst rough grass on the West Lancashire Golf Course on June 12th, 1937. The nest then consisted of a hollow in black earth with a partial rim and bottom lining of dry grass, Once when the hen wa...

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Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed: XV. The Bar-tailed Godwit

British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

The Larder of the Red-Backed Shrike

Vital Statistics of the Mochrum Cormorant Colony

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Letters

Reviews

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