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01 April 1957 Comments Reviews By LEONARD W . W I N G . (Ronald Press Company, New York, 1956). 539 pages, 222 textfigures and numerous tables. Price $6.75. THERE is g r e a t need at the present time for a general biology of birds covering the whole field, and the present book fills ...

Notes

01 April 1957 Comments Notes of Boelus, Nebraska, informs me that he wing-tipped a young female White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) whilst shooting on the North Platte river in the autumn of 1903 or 1904--he is not sure which---and took the bird back to his farm. H e goes on to say...

Neottiophilum Praeustum in birds' nests

01 April 1957 Comments Main paper Diptera with n o close relatives, being" the only member of the family Neottiophilidae. T h e larvae are ectoparasites of nestling birds and live in the lining of the nest, periodically attaching themselves to the nestlings and sucking blood. They are thu...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXX. Kite

01 April 1957 Comments Main paper THE K I T E or Red Kite (Milvus milvus) has a much more restricted rÃÂ¤nge than its close relative, the Black Kite (M. migrans), of which we published photographs just a year ago (antea, vol. xlix, plates 5-7, pp. 140-141). It is usually, too, a much...

The rarer birds of Prey: Their Present Status in the British Isles

01 April 1957 Comments Main paper Their Present Status in the British Isles T H E BIRDS OF PREY are a fascinating- group. They always attract attention and arouse an unusual degree of admiration or persecution according to outlook. Largely for that reason their distribution and their bree...

Notes

01 September 1947 Comments Notes ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking some...

Report of the bird-ringing committee

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper THIS is the tenth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The composition of the Committee remains the same...

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper the co-operation of 64 observers, it has been possible to provide evidence of the breeding of at least ten pairs of Black Redstarts (Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) in England in 1946. A further 13 pairs or singing males occupied territories, but wi...

Notes on Welsh Choughs

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper As THE Chough (Pyrrhocorax p. pyrrhocorax) is one of our lesserknown species, the following observations might be of interest as furnishing corroboration of the excellent account of this species given in The Handbook. The notes are the result of observati...

Some cases of abnormal flight of birds

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper instances of abnormal flight in birds, which I have observed, open up an interesting subject for speculation. The collection of further data may throw light upon the reasons. Probably in many cases the effect of air currents, pockets and lifts may be assu...

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Reviews

Notes

Neottiophilum Praeustum in birds' nests

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXX. Kite

The rarer birds of Prey: Their Present Status in the British Isles

Notes

Report of the bird-ringing committee

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

Notes on Welsh Choughs

Some cases of abnormal flight of birds

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