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July reports

01 October 1974 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records A Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris was present in the gannetry on Herrnaness, Unst (Shetland), throughout the summer. Following the June report of a Fulmar Fulmarus glaci...

News and comment

01 October 1974 Comments News and comment Growth of the British and Irish list The number of full species admitted to the British and Irish list during the 17 decades which have elapsed since 1800 has varied from as few as four to as many as 27 per decade, the average being 13; Kenneth...

Letters

01 October 1974 Comments Letters ...

Notes

01 October 1974 Comments Notes Egg-laying by the Great Crested Grebe Although the behaviour of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus has been intensively studied, many questions are still open. One such question is how Great Crested Grebes lay their eggs, and whether they exhibit ...

Adaptations in the reproductive biology of the Great Crested Grebe

01 October 1974 Comments Main paper The Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus shows many striking and puzzling features in its reproductive biology, these being the subject of the present paper which is primarily concerned with adaptive aspects. My own studies on this species, which inv...

Allen's Gallinule in Britain and the Palearctic

01 October 1974 Comments Main paper Allen's Gallinule Porphyrula alleni, a tropical African bird, has but once been obtained in Britain: off the Suffolk coast in January 1902. The species was not then admitted to the British and Irish list; there was some incredulity at the concept of a ...

Letters

01 August 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Is it generally known t h a t t h e Green Woodpecker eats fruit ? I watched one on October 23rd making a hearty meal off an apple a few yards from m y window, and since then many large apples picked u p plainly show t h e marks of this bird's power...

Reviews

01 August 1963 Comments Reviews Report on the Immigration of Summer-residents in the Spring of 1912 ; also Notes on the Migratory Movements and Records received from Lighthouses and Light-vessels during the Autumn of 1911. By the Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Club (...

Notes

01 August 1963 Comments Notes I WAS at Dungeness from October 20th to 23rd, 1913, and a great deal of migration was proceeding at the time, chiefly of flocks of finches and other birds flying south in the early morning. Between 12 noon and 1 p.m. on the 20th I saw a party of thirteen...

Recovery of Marked Birds.

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper STABLINGS (Stumus v. vulgaris).--U513, 41526, 41539, 46201, 46284, 46310, 46314, 46363, 46375, immature, marked b y Mr. W. E . Suggitt, at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, during J u l y and August, 1913. Recovered during November and December, 1913, from near ...

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July reports

News and comment

Letters

Notes

Adaptations in the reproductive biology of the Great Crested Grebe

Allen's Gallinule in Britain and the Palearctic

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Recovery of Marked Birds.

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