Letters

01 November 1953
Comments Letters SIRS,--The points which Mr. K. Williamson makes (antea, pp. 231-32) in connection with a remark of mine on the distribution of the Alaska Wren (Troglodytes t. alascensis) (antea, pp. 48-49) are of interest not only in regard t o the evolution of wren race...
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Reviews

01 November 1953
Comments Reviews Social Behaviour in Animals. By N. Tinbergen. (Methuen, London, 1953). 12s.6d. IN The Study of Instinct (reviewed in vol. xlv, p. 182) Dr. Tinbergen was concerned with the entire study of animal behaviour and with its results up to 1948. In the present, m...
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Notes

01 November 1953
Comments Notes Effective distraction display by Mallard.--As only a few observations have been recorded indicating the effectiveness of distraction display by a parent bird in deflecting the attention of a potential predator from the young [Bird Display, pp. 104-105) t...
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The song of the Woodpigeon

01 November 1953
Comments Main paper DURING 1948, one of us (J.S.H.), after listening carefully to the singing- of the Woodpigeon (Columba palumbus) and the recording of a number of its songs, came to the conclusion that the song of this species differed from the generally accepted version, ...
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Reviews

01 April 1941
Comments Reviews Lundy : Isle of Puffins. By Richard Perry. (Lindsay Drummond.) With 37 photographs by Alan Richardson. 12s. 6d. net. T H I S book is the result of observation during the five summer months of 1939 which Mr. Perry spent on Lundy, off the N. Devon coast. It...
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Notes

01 April 1941
Comments Notes THE recoveries of ringed Redwings (Turdus musicus), though still few, are of sufficient interest to bring together in a separate note. No recovery of a ringed Redwing was reported until early in 1938, although up to that time 576 had been marked. Then tw...
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