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Studies of some species rarely photographed. LIII. Tawny Pipit

01 December 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 68-71) T H E Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris) is usually looked upon in Britain with greater interest than are the other rarer pipits. Possibly this is because it bred in Sussex on one or two occasions at the beginning of the present century or per...

Report from Bird Observatories, 1952

01 December 1953 Comments Main paper ONCE again we are glad to include a series of reports from the Bird Observatories. During 1952, one new Observatory--at Dungeness in Kent--was opened, thus bringing to eleven the total engaged in this kind of work, a total that has been further increased ...

Errata

01 December 1953 Comments Editorials VOL. XLVI. Line 13 from bottom, for "Savidge" read "Savage". Line 12 from bottom, for "extirpation" read "extirpation". Line 27 from bottom, for "cinerea" read "brachydactyla". Line 19, for "the first record" read "the second record". Line 17, for " E x e...

Letter

01 December 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--Beginning with 1953 an annual report for the county of Norfolk is to be published jointly by the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society and the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust and I would be grateful if any of your readers who have records of observat...

Reviews

01 December 1953 Comments Reviews The Birds of the British Isles. By D. A. Bannerman and G. E. Lodge. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1953.) Vol. I. 45s. Tins work was conceived as a vehicle to make available a complete range of Mr. Lodge's fine paintings. Undoubtedly his most widely known wor...

Notes

01 December 1953 Comments Notes Cley, Norfolk, Mr. and Mrs. H. P . Medhurst and R.A.R. saw a very small tawny heron, little larger than a Moorhen (Gcdlinula chloropus), and with dark primaries and secondaries, rise out of a narrow belt of reeds beside the bank and fly lightly for a few ...

The migrations of British Warblers (Sylviid¾) as shown by the results of ringing

01 December 1953 Comments Main paper T H E purpose of this paper is to analyse the recovery records of birds of species of Sylviidse 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 . With...

Reviews

01 March 1951 Comments Reviews The Moult-migration of the Sheld-Duck. By R. A. H. Coombes (Ibis, Vol. 92, pp. 405-418). In this paper Mr. Coombes describes work on the Sheld-Duck, which he has carried on as occasion offered over a number of years and intensively throughout the summer o...

Notes

01 March 1951 Comments Notes PARTLY as a result of a request for such information (antea, vol. xliii, p. 223) we have received a certain number of records of summer visitors spending the winter of 1949-50 in the British Isles. We have also received several records of species seen un...

Obituary: E. W. Hendy

01 March 1951 Comments Obituaries ERNEST WILLIAM HENDY, who died in his 78th year on November 1st, 1950, brought a poet's mind and a classical training to the study of birds and wild life, and his approach bore fruit in a rare degree of insight into Nature, matched by an originality and ...

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Studies of some species rarely photographed. LIII. Tawny Pipit

Report from Bird Observatories, 1952

Errata

Letter

Reviews

Notes

The migrations of British Warblers (Sylviid¾) as shown by the results of ringing

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: E. W. Hendy

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