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01 June 1946 Comments Notes WITH reference to Lt.-Col. B. H. Ryves's statement (antea, p. 43) that all species of buntings are absent in the Scillies, it may be of interest to record that my husband and I saw and heard several Corn-Buntings {Emberiza calandra) in song on St. Agnes,...

Studies of some Species rarely Photographed. V. The Three-toed Woodpecker

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper Photographed 6y H. N. SOUTHERN. (Plates 21-22). T H E Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) is one of the birds of Western Europe of which there is no good evidence t h a t it has occurred in the British Isles, though Donovan's History of British ...

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper THIS is the ninth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence by H. F. Witherby published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The Committee has been reconsti...

Birds of inner London

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper D U R I N G the year under review (1945), there has been one new record for Inner London, viz., t h e White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons), a flock of this species having been seen by Mrs. Rait Kerr crossing over Lords on February 17th. Mr. Holte Macpher...

Further Notes on the Breeding of Blue Tits

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper IN a previous paper (Vol. xxxviii, p. 205), I have given the results of some of my observations on the feeding of nestlings of the Blue Tit (Pants cmmleus obscurus). In 1945, I decided to extend the scope of the investigation to include, if possible, such...

Letters

01 March 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--Witts reference to your comments on t h e note o n . a Robin feeding a fledgling Blackbird (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p, 355), there is anotheroccurrence of a Robin feeding a brood of young Song-Thrushes mentioned, and illustrated, with three photograph...

Reviews

01 March 1946 Comments Reviews Somerset Archcsol. & Nat. Hist. Soc, Ornithological Section. Report on Somerset Birds, 1944. T H I S contains many valuable records and others of purely local interest. Blagdon Reservoir has been well watched and provides good notes on duck, some in consi...

Notes

01 March 1946 Comments Notes O N March ijth, 1945, I was in a convoy moving slowly south through the'Irish Sea. The day was brilliantly fine, the sea quite calm. In the morning the Welsh Hills were visible, but otherwise we saw neither coast. There was no fog, however. There was a v...

Obituary: Charles Bethune Moffat. (1859-1945)

01 March 1946 Comments Obituaries Betlmne Moffat, to the great regret of his many friends, died on October 14th, 1945. He was born in the Isle of Man on January16th, 1859, being the eldest of the seven children of the late James and Annie Moffat. When Charles was about a year and a half o...

Studies of some species Rarely Photographed. Il. The Lesser White-fronted Goose

01 March 1946 Comments Main paper IL THE LESSER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE Photographed by PETER SCOTT AND GAVIN MAXWELL.* (Plates 11-14). the general intention of this series is naturally to provide illustrations of wild birds photographed under natural conditions, an exception is macle in the...

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Notes

Studies of some Species rarely Photographed. V. The Three-toed Woodpecker

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

Birds of inner London

Further Notes on the Breeding of Blue Tits

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: Charles Bethune Moffat. (1859-1945)

Studies of some species Rarely Photographed. Il. The Lesser White-fronted Goose

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