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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 ...

Firecrests in Britain, 1952-1953

01 October 1954 Comments Main paper T H I S paper follows the pattern of similar papers published in this journal in recent years dealing with the occurrence, on migration in the British Isles, of a selected species, or group of species. The Handbook (Vol. I, pp. 319-320) describes the Fire...

Editorial

01 October 1954 Comments Editorials IT has for a long time been becoming increasingly obvious that the production of a first-rate monthly Magazine to provide " a current history of British B i r d s " can no longer be treated as a spare-time task. Even before 1943 H. F . Witherby found it ...

Letter

01 February 1941 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t has long been known t h a t there is a remarkable relation between t h e Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) and the common field-vole (Microtus agrestis). The common vole at apparently regular intervals increases in numbers in different loca...

Review

01 February 1941 Comments Reviews Ritchie (1940), " An analysis of t h e influence of weather upon a migratory movement of birds," Proc, Roy, Soc, Edin., Vol. 60, P- 299.analysis of t h e d a t a relating t o t h e 1921 invasion of t h e Waxwing (Bombycitta garrulus) and t h e associated...

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