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01 March 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writer's judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted in case a report ...

Request for information

01 March 1958 Comments Editorials The 1957 irruptions of tits and other species.--The organisers report a good response to the earlier appeals (antea, vol. L, pp. 495 and 542) for information about the movements of tits (Parus spp). and other birds in the autumn of 1957. For England and W...

Letters

01 March 1958 Comments Letters I N F O R M A T I O N W A N T E D ON L A P W I N G C H I C K S S I R S , -- F r o m observations made over a number of years on the growth and development of young Lapwings (Vanellus vanellus), it would appear that early hatching chicks develop more rapid...

Reviews

01 March 1958 Comments Reviews By N . F . TICEHURST. (Cleaver-Hume, London, 1957). 131 p a g e s ; 32 plates in blackand-white and two-colour line. 35s. T H E LITTLE we know of the past history of birds in Britain is derived from archaelogical research during" prehistoric excavations,...

Notes

01 March 1958 Comments Notes Glossy Ibis in D o r s e t -- O n 3rd December 1956, an adult male Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) was shot in the water meadows of the River F r o m e a t Stratton, near Dorchester, Dorset, by C. J. R. Pope. T h e bird w a s examined in the flesh by R...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXVI. Chough and Alpine Chough

01 March 1958 Comments Main paper CHOUGHS (Pyrrhocorax spp.) are medium-sized crows with almost completely uniform blue-black plumage, striking red legs and a brightly-coloured beak. There are only two species--the common Chough ( P . pyrrhocorax), with a slender, decurved, red bill about...

A North Atlantic transect in September

01 March 1958 Comments Main paper " E m p r e s s of F r a n c e " from Liverpool to Montreal via Inishtrahull and Belle Isle, from 21st to 28th September 1956. It covers only the Offshore and Pelagic Zones, i.e. excludes the Mersey and the River St. Lawrence. Details of daily position a...

The migrations of British Hawks (Accipitridae) as shown by Ringing results

01 March 1958 Comments Main paper species of the Accipitridae (including Accipitrinae, Buteoninae, Circinae and Pandioninae) ringed in the British Isles under the scheme now managed by the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and earlier by the late H. F . Witherby,...

Reviews

01 October 1947 Comments Reviews More Birds of the Day. By Eric Hosking and Cyril Newberry. (Collins, London, 1946). 125 6d. net. The great popularity of t h e authors' Birds of the Day has led t h e m to follow this up with a sequel providing a no less admirable picture gallery of Briti...

Notes

01 October 1947 Comments Notes ON June 22nd, 1947, in a wood just outside Calais, I had a good view of a male Golden Oriole (Oriolus 0. oriolus), sitting in sunlight on a bare twig of a lombardy poplar, about 30 feet from the ground. It called continuously for about eight minutes. The...

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Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXVI. Chough and Alpine Chough

A North Atlantic transect in September

The migrations of British Hawks (Accipitridae) as shown by Ringing results

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