Reviews

01 April 1956
Comments Reviews with field assistance by GEORGE EDWARDS. (Faber and Faber, London, 1955). 128 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 18s. Birds Fighting is one of the first bird books to be illustrated mainly with electronic flash photographs. A number of them have already appeared in t...
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Notes

01 April 1956
Comments Notes Purple Heron in Surrey.--On 18th September 1955 I disturbed a juvenile Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) in a patch of rather close-growing reeds at the south end of Frensham Little Pond, six miles N . W . of Haslemere, Surrey. First seen indistinctly in the ...
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Special Review

01 April 1956
Comments Reviews and 1955). 162 pages and 24 p l a t e s ; 235 pages and 24 plates. Each 10s. T H E activities of the W r ildfowl Trust have expanded enormously since its inception in 1946. T h e contents of the First Annual Report, reviewed in this journal in 1948, consi...
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Letters

01 April 1956
Comments Letters CYANISTIC EGG O F C U R L E W S I R S , -- T h e r e is surely nothing' very remarkable about the finding by Messrs. W . G. Hale and G. W e b s t e r of a single cyanic type egg of the Curlew (Numenius arquata), on a Lancashire moor on 7th May 1955 (antea...
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Reviews

01 February 1951
Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory Reports, 1940--'46, 1947, 1948, 1949. (t940-'46 out of print; others obtainable from Col. H. Allen, D.S.O., M.B.E., The Red House, Heywood Lane, Tenby, price 2/6). These four reports cover a long and chequered period of Skokholm...
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