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01 September 1962 Comments Reviews Identification for Ringers: 2. T h e Genus Phylloscopus. By Kenneth Williamson. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, 1962. 86 pages; 1 colour and 4 monochrome plates. 7s. There are now about a thousand ringers in Britain. Many of these are trained and l... Read More

Studies of less familiar birds 119. Great Grey Owl

01 September 1962 Comments Main paper mbulosd) by Oscar Moberg were published in British Birds in 1956 (49: plates 1-3), but the remarkable flight pictures by Hilding Mickelsson and Goran Hansson n o w reproduced o n plates 60 and 61 more than justify the species being included in this series... Read More

Behaviour of Pied Flycatchers during an eclipse of the sun

01 September 1962 Comments Main paper during eclipses of the sun, when light intensities may be lower than those which inhibit feeding and other regular activities on normal evenings. This short paper therefore sets out to record some observations which my wife and I made on a pair of Pied Fl... Read More

Notes

01 December 1940 Comments Notes DURING a visit to Achill Island from June 6th to 16th, 1938, I made records of species seen, and my observations may be of interest as a supplement to the paper by Mr. R. S. R. Fitter in the issue of British Birds for November, 1940. I covered most of th... Read More