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Obituary: Herbert William Robinson (1875-1941)

01 August 1942 Comments Obituaries HERBERT WILLIAM ROBINSON, who died at Lancaster on August 4th, 1941 was born in Surrey in January, 1875 and was the eldest son of the late J. P. Robinson, a civil engineer of Haiton near Lancaster. Educated at the Royal Gfammar School, Lancaster and St. ...

The Berkhamsted Grey Shrike

01 August 1942 Comments Main paper IN British Birds, Vol. xxxiv, p. 17, the late Mr. Charles Oldham recorded the presence between March 6th and April I3th, 1940, of a Lesser Grey Shrike (Lantus minor) ort Berkhamsted Common, and on p. 178 its presence in the same locality in November and D...

Sex Ratios in Winter Duck Flocks

01 August 1942 Comments Main paper IN the winter of 1938-39, observers of the London Natural History Society took a census of ducks, grebes and coot on one Saturday a month from October to March inclusive on all the important sheets of water within 20 miles of London.* The objects of the c...

Review

01 July 1942 Comments Reviews The Birds of tht Liverpool Area. By Eric Hardy. (Arbroath : T. B u n d e & Co.. Ltd.). 8s. 6d. net. T H I S hook will no doubt be found very useful to membersof the Merseyside Naturalists' Association, a t whose request it has been compiled, but as a faun...

Notes

01 July 1942 Comments Notes THE following notes relate to a mimber of species, several of whose Status now appears to differ from that described in H. E. Forrest's Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales (1907) and Handbook to the Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales (1919). Unless otherwise st...

Obituary: Jannion Steele Elliott (1871-1942)

01 July 1942 Comments Obituaries STEELE ELLIOTT was born at Bedford on May 25th, 1871 and died during a visit to his brother at Kerry, Montgomeryshire on March 27th, 1942. He was educated at Bedford Modern Grammar School and in 1896 went to the midlands with his brother William Elliott ...

Notes

01 June 1942 Comments Notes AERIAL EVOLUTIONS OF THE CORMORANT, ON the aftemoon of March 22nd, 1942, a friend and I were Walking beside Broad Water, in the Lake District of Cumberland. Many Cormorants (Phalacrocorax c. carbo) haunt that great sheet of water during the winter and ea...

Obituary: Charles Oldham (1868-1942)

01 June 1942 Comments Obituaries THE death of Charles Oldham at his home in Berkhamsted on April 131h last at the age of nearly 74, means the löss of a great naturalist and a well-known, widely informed and authoritative figure in British ornithological circles. Born at Lincoln in 1868...

Report on the Redshank Inquiry 1939-40

01 June 1942 Comments Main paper A HUNDRED years ago the Redshank appears to have been a bird of the seashore, tidal rivers and the neighbouring coastal districts, breeding only on the eastern side of Great Britain, but since the beginning of the present Century it has been known to an i...

Some observations on Breeding-Habits of the Turtle-Dove

01 June 1942 Comments Main paper DURING a sojourn at Hickling, Norfolk, last year (1941) I was given an opportunity of studying some part of the breeding biology of the Turtle-Dove (Streptopelia t. turtur). I reached my destination on April 29, which was prior to the arrival of the Turtl...

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Obituary: Herbert William Robinson (1875-1941)

The Berkhamsted Grey Shrike

Sex Ratios in Winter Duck Flocks

Review

Notes

Obituary: Jannion Steele Elliott (1871-1942)

Notes

Obituary: Charles Oldham (1868-1942)

Report on the Redshank Inquiry 1939-40

Some observations on Breeding-Habits of the Turtle-Dove

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