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01 March 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,--In Vol. xl, p. 245, you say t h a t the taking of food from the water b y Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) has apparently not been "previously recorded in our ornithological literature." I have recently had occasion t o search t h e literature for ...

Reviews

01 March 1948 Comments Reviews Ornithological Record for Derbyshire, 1946. Compiled b y W. K. Marshall. This publication gives evidence of considerable activity among Derbyshire bird-observers, and includes many interesting notes. To the "complete list of birds recorded in t h e count...

Notes

01 March 1948 Comments Notes ON July 19th, 1947, whilst cycling near Heytesbury, Wiltshire, I heard some Magpies (P. p. pica) chattering, as though alarmed, in a hawthorn not far from the road. I turned and was just in time to see a Carrion Crow (Corvus c. corone) strike a Magpie to...

The distinguishing characters of the Steppe-Buzzard

01 March 1948 Comments Main paper THE eastern race of the Buzzard, known as the Steppe-Buzzard, Buieo buteo vulpinus Gloger, which breeds as far west in Europe as North Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria, has been shown to occur as a bird of passage (and more rarely ...

Winter feeding hours of Robins, Blackbirds and Blue Tits

01 March 1948 Comments Main paper IT IS a matter of common knowledge that birds do not spend the whole of their waking hours looking for food, even during the short days of mid-winter. Gulls and waders, for instance, may be seen standing in flocks, inactive for hours on end. The watcher k...

Bird life on the Pett level floods, 1941-1943

01 March 1948 Comments Main paper [In 1940 Pett Level in Sussex was flooded as part of the war-time defences of the south coast, and a considerable area thus reverted for the time being to conditions which must have resembled those prevailing in this and other low-lying coastal tracts bef...

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01 January 1943 Comments Notes THE Handbook of British Birds states that on the continent Magpies may roost in hundreds, but I have not heard of a roost of any magnitude in this country. On March 30th, 1942 near Northallerton the chattering of Magpies (Pica p. pica) drew my attention ...

Obituary: Rear-Admiral Hubert Lynes (1874-1942)

01 January 1943 Comments Obituaries (1874-1942) ORNITHOLOGISTS all over the world and a host of friends will greatly deplore the loss of Rear-Admiral Lynes, whose death took place after a short illness on November 10th, 1942, at a Naval Hospital. Hubert Lynes was born on November 27th, 187...

An index to the Thames Kingfisher Recovery

01 January 1943 Comments Main paper THE winter of 1939-40 was an abnormally severe one in the British Isles. The weather and its effect on bird life have been summarised by Ticehurst and Witherby (antea Vol. xxxiv, pp. 118 and 142) who describe the devastating " bottle frost " --i.e. the th...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

The distinguishing characters of the Steppe-Buzzard

Winter feeding hours of Robins, Blackbirds and Blue Tits

Bird life on the Pett level floods, 1941-1943

Notes

Obituary: Rear-Admiral Hubert Lynes (1874-1942)

An index to the Thames Kingfisher Recovery

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