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01 October 1937 Comments Reviews Bird Behaviour : A contribution based chiefly on a study of the Blackheaded Gull. By F . B. Kirkman, B.A., Oxon, pp. 232. 30 plates (Nelson, 7s. 6d. net). The scope of Mr. Kirkman's work is clearly defined in t h e sub-title, b u t the title, which alone ...

Notes

01 October 1937 Comments Notes THE following reports of occurrences of the Rose-coloured Starling (Pastor roseus) have reached ixs (all the dates are in 1937), and we shall be glad to hear of any other birds having been seen. YORKSHIRE.--Mr. Ralph Chislett records (Nat., 1937, p. 223)...

Obituary: Lord Rothschild (1868-1937)

01 October 1937 Comments Obituaries ) who died at Tring on August 27th, 1937, at the age of 69, may with justice be called one of the last zoologists, a scientist whose interests embraced all classes of animals and extended into botany, who perceived an animal as an entity created by nature...

"Mr. Alexander Moniepennie: birds of Angus and Mearns: 1834" and "Mr. J. Penruddock's Tanitvy Times

01 October 1937 Comments Main paper ALEXANDER MONIEPENNIE : Birds of Angus and the Mearns : 1834 " AND *' MR. J. PENRUDDOCK'S Tantivy Times (ACKERMAN, 1841) ". LATE in 1935 there was published Birds Ashore and A-Foreshore by Patrick R. Chalmers and it was duly reviewed in The Field (Decemb...

Recovery of marked birds

01 October 1937 Comments Main paper Ailsa Craig, 1.8.34, by Lord Luce Bay (Wigtown), 5.6.37. Dumfries. II8425 Ditto 29.7-35- Casablanca, Morocco,--.2.37. 120314 Bass Rock, 4.7.36, by Mid- Amrum, N. Frisian Is., lothian Orn. Club. Winter, 1936. I19005 Ditto, --.7.36, by H. W. At sea, 59 0 1...

Aggressive display of birds before a looking-glass

01 October 1937 Comments Main paper in April of this year I placed a triple looking-glass on the lawn in front of my study window in Berkshire to find out, which birds, among the common birds of a garden, would be likely to display, or to attack their own reflection in the glass. The mirror...

The Psychological factor in bird distribution

01 October 1937 Comments Main paper short paper is mainly a summary of two earlier ones [10, n ] , and is written partly because the conclusions then put forward seem to have been somewhat misunderstood.* The limits of a bird's distribution are probably often determined by such factors as c...

Letters

01 September 1937 Comments Letters SIRS,--I think Mr. David Lack is clearly right in concluding from the scene he describes (antea, p . 82) t h a t the crest of the Goldcrest (Regulus r. anglorum) is an instance of ornamentation functioning as a " threatcolour", and used for t h a t purpo...

Reviews

01 September 1937 Comments Reviews British Trust for Ornithology. Third Report, Summer, 1937. This Report shows a marked advance not only in the work done and being done by the Trust, but in t h e support it has received both from field-workers and sympathizers. The important Little Owl In...

Notes

01 September 1937 Comments Notes A WELL-AUTHENTICATED clutch of eggs of the Pine-Grosbeak (Pinicola e. enucleator), exceeding four, is so rare that it may be worth recording that a nest containing five fresh eggs of this species was found near Noatun, east Finmark, on June n t h , 1937,...

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Obituary: Lord Rothschild (1868-1937)

"Mr. Alexander Moniepennie: birds of Angus and Mearns: 1834" and "Mr. J. Penruddock's Tanitvy Times

Recovery of marked birds

Aggressive display of birds before a looking-glass

The Psychological factor in bird distribution

Letters

Reviews

Notes

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