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01 November 1950 Comments Letters Bird Life. By Edward A. Armstrong. (Lindsay Drummond, 1949.) 12/6. Field Study Books : The Lapwing. By E. A. R. Ennion. (Methuen, 1949.) 6/-. These two books, though differing in approach and in scope, have the same audience and end in view. They have bot...

Notes

01 November 1950 Comments Notes ON January 4th, 1950, we were standing in the road beside Bolney Grange Ltd., Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, watching about 30-40 WoodPigeons (Columba palumbus) feeding under a tree, when we heard the harsh calls of Carrion Crows (Corvus corone). We looked up, ...

Birds of Inner London, 1949

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper " A List of the Birds of Inner London " was published in 1929 by A. Holte Macpherson {vide antea, vol. xxii, pp. 222-244) and notes on changes in status and of unusual occurrences have appeared annually in British Birds since then. The volume of records r...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVIII. The Calandra Lark, The Short-Toed Lark, The Black-Eared Wheatear

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper (Plates 62-73) W E illustrate this month three South European passerine birds all characteristic of more or less arid country, the two larks especially so, and all photographed during the past summer on the Crau, the remarkable tract of stony, desert-like...

The Northern Golden Plover in South Staffordshire

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the Northern Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria altifrons) in South Staffordshire are of interest in view of the recent note by E. O. Hohn (i), describing the appearance of flocks of these birds in the north of the county on ...

A study of the British Willow-Tit

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper T H I S paper describes some aspects of the British Willow-Tit {Varus atricapillus Meinschmidti) studied by both authors from J a n u a r y to July, 1948, and by the second author with the help of J. A. Gibb from October, 1948, to February, 1950. The only...

Influences causing fluctuation of warbler population in cultivated lands and oak Woods in the Severn Valley

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper IN November, 1935 (antea, vol. xxix, pp. 158-166), I published Notes on Population Problems and Territorial Habits of Chiffchaffs and Willow-Warblers." This was the result of observations over the years 1927 to 1935 in one area oi farm land and another of...

The index of heron population

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper The number of heronries on which reports for 1949 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 162, or 16 more than in the previous year. Of these 117 were in England, 9 in Wales, 17 in Scotland and 19 in Ireland. We are indebted to 79 informants of who...

The Behaviour Of Corn-Crakes

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper MASON DURING the past few years the writer, with the help of friends, has carried out a series of experiments with Corn-Crakes {Crex crex) The experiments consist in calling up Corn-Crakes to a stuffed dummy by imitating the " crake-crake " song with a p...

On The Courtship And Social Displays Of Three Species Of Auk

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper CONDER DURING the summer of 1947 I had opportunities of watching the breeding displays of the Razorbill (Aha torda), the Guillemot (Una aalge), and the Puffin (Fratercula arctica) on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire. The displays of the three species occurred chi...

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