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01 September 1961 Comments Reviews The Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh. By H . Albert Hochbaum. Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, U.S.A., 1959 (second edition). 207 pages; 18 photographs. $4.50. Originally published towards the end of the 1939-45 war, this was the first of a series of authorita...

Notes

01 September 1961 Comments Notes Manx Shearwater d i g g i n g by daylight.--At about 2.30 p.m. on 15th May 1961, I was walking in bright sunlight on a sloping cliff on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, when I heard a Manx Shearwater (Procellaria puffinus) calling from its burrow. Kneeling down w...

Mallard feeding from dead birds

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper from dead birds. The Birds of the 'London Area since ipoo (1957, p . 133) mentions several observations of Mallard {Anas platyrhynchos) seizing and drowning House Sparrows {Passer domesticus) and on at least two occasions the victims were swallowed {Royal...

Dowitchers in Great Britain and Ireland

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper T H E P A P E R BY P I T E L K A (1961) in this issue of British Birds shows that both the Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) and the Short-billed Dowitcher (L. griseus) have occurred in the British Isles. At the request of the editors, I am ...

Long-billed and Short-billed Dowitcher specimens in the British Museum

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper "Red-breasted Snipe" have been assigned to the one species, ~Limnodromus griseus, recognised by American ornithologists (see A.O.U. Check-list 1931; Peters 1934). However, the excellent work of Rowan (1932) first called attention to evidence that there we...

The relationship between foot-movements and feeding in shore birds

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper I S H O U L D L I K E to make some observations which may serve to cast a different light upon the subject of foot-movements in shore birds, since in the literature there is a tendency to associate this behaviour with the luring of worms to the surface of...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 November 1939 Comments Main paper Oundle (Northants), 12.1.39 [62 m. W.]. Great Ouse Estuary (Nor folk), 21.1.39 [25 m. W.]. Saltmills (Wexford), 5.2.39. Kalinin, West Russia, 15.9.38 [56Â°52'N., 36Â°E.]. Mouth of R. Welland (Lines), 24.12.38 [76 m. NW.].Saltash (Cornwall), 12.1.39 [9...

Birds seen on an autumn and a spring Atlantic Crossing

01 November 1939 Comments Main paper IN the autumn of 1938 and the spring of 1935 I made voyages across the Atlantic. The first one was in the "Europa" from Cherbourg to New York and the secondin the "Columbie" from Guadeloupe in the Leeward Isles to Plymouth. Several hours counting of birds...

Observation on Swallows and House-Martins at the Nest

01 November 1939 Comments Main paper RECENT studies of the parental care by African Hinindinidae and Swifts have suggested that, in addition to specific differences in the share taken by the sexes, certain rhythms of the behaviour may be specific, especially the favourite duration of the in...

Letter

01 November 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,--The extension of the breeding range of the Lapwing {Vanellus vanellus) to Fokstumyren referred to in my previous letter (antea, p. 118) is certainly recent. Neither H. Tho. L. Schaanning in 1917 nor H. L. Ldvenskiold in 1929 and 1930 found the bird...

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