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01 September 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--In t h e course of a study of t h e breeding population of Oystercatchers (Hmmatopus ostralegms occidenialis) on the islands of Skomer and Skokholm this year we have ringed a number of chicks with coloured rings. Though the main purpose of this has...

Notes

01 September 1946 Comments Notes THE habit of sun-bathing by passerine birds.is discussed in a note by T. S. Williams (antea, p. 152). As indicated in the Editorial comment thereto this is probably commoner than at first sight appears to be the case. To the list of species given I can a...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. VI. The Griffon Vulture

01 September 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 31-35). THE Griffon Vulture (Gyps f.fulvus), of which species a single immature example was captured near Cork in 1843 and others have been reliably reported as seen on two occasions in England, has in recent years become almost, if not quite, ext...

Some further Notes from the North Atlantic

01 September 1946 Comments Main paper (with chart). SINCE the publication in 1928 of the writer's " Bird Notes from the North Atlantic " (Brit. Birds, Vol. xxii, pp. 122-133) and of "An Ornithological Transect of the North Atlantic" (Brit. Birds, Vol. xxiv, pp. 266-274), much has been done to...

Do juvenile birds survive less than adults

01 September 1946 Comments Main paper FARNER (1945} has estimated the age and survival of the American Robin (Turdus migratorius) from ringing (banding) returns, by the method used by the present writer for various British species (Lack, 1943). Farner's conclusions agree closely with mine exc...

Letters

01 February 1938 Comments Letters SIRS,--In reply to Mr. Lockley's letter under this heading (antea, pp. 278-9), I had two main points t o make in m y report on Skokholm Island, namely :-- 1. That owing t o its depredations on Storm-Petrels, the Little Owl should, if possible, be prevente...

Notes

01 February 1938 Comments Notes ON April 15th, 1937, a male Bullfinch which appeared to be much larger than the British Bullfinch (Pyrrhula p. pileata) was seen moving about in some trees on Holy Island. Later in the day this bird was shot by a resident on the island and was sent in to...

Recovery of marked birds

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper Rawdon (Yorks), 24.4.37, by Bramhope (Yorks), 15.7.37. C. Wontner-Smith. Ditto 4-S-37- Allerton (Yorks), 13.8.37. Stodmarsh (Kent), 16.4.33, by Where ringed, --.9.37. Oxford Orn. Soc. R I N G E D AS FULL-GROWN. Gt. Budworth (Ches), 17.7.35, Acton Bridge ...

Birds seen in two winter transects of the North Atlantic

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper bird-counts of the North Atlantic crossing have already appeared, and in these the significance of the figures has been fully discussed. The most comprehensive is by V. C. Wynne-Edwards (Proc. Boston Soc, Nat. Hist., Vol. XL., No. 4, pp. 233-346. January,...

Notes on the Gannetries of Sule Stack and Sula Sgeir

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper (Plate I I . ) IT may be safely said that in a quarter of a century no new information has been added to our previous knowledge of the gannetry of Sule Stack, and with the exception of my notes on Sula Sgeir [10]* these same remarks apply to this latter g...

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Letter

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. VI. The Griffon Vulture

Some further Notes from the North Atlantic

Do juvenile birds survive less than adults

Letters

Notes

Recovery of marked birds

Birds seen in two winter transects of the North Atlantic

Notes on the Gannetries of Sule Stack and Sula Sgeir

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