Letters

01 August 1953
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I was most interested to read the account by J. D. Macdonald of t h e recovery of an albatross in Derbyshire (antea, pp. I I O - I I I ) and to see the accompanying photograph (plate 13), because in m y opinion the bird was a Yellow-nosed Alb...
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Review

01 August 1953
Comments Reviews The Birds of Lancashire. By Clifford Oakes. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1953). 21s. od. One cannot fail to be impressed by the wealth of information which is presented here, and the care with which it has evidently been sifted. Local distribution, of cours...
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Notes

01 August 1953
Comments Notes On the feeding habits of the Redshank and the Spotted Redshank.-- Observations were made on the feeding of Redshank (Tringa totanus) and Spotted Redshank (T. erythropus) on a shallow, tideless mud lagoon surrounded by reeds. The method employed was to ob...
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Report on bird-ringing for 1952

01 August 1953
Comments Main paper This is the sixteenth reportf issued on behalf of the Committee, continuing the earlier sequence under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme." It combines a report on the progress of ringing during 1952, with a selected list of recent recovery reco...
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Letters

01 February 1952
Comments Letters SIRS,--In your September issue (antea, vol. xliv, p. 314) is a sight record by Mr. D. D. Harber oi a "Sooty Shearwater" seen off the Sussex coast, "some way out" to sea. The bird is described simply as " a large, all-black shearwater with a rather heavy b...
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Reviews

01 February 1952
Comments Reviews Grenlands Fugle. Part II. By Finn Saiomensen. Illustrated by GitzJohansen. (Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1951. 66s.). The second part of this important work deals with the Ptarmigan, the waders, skuas and galls and the Arctic Tern; as its prohibitive cost and ...
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Supplementary Notes

01 February 1952
Comments Main paper As foreshadowed in an Editorial published in May, 1951 (antea, vol. xliv, p . 146), we propose to use this heading for a list of notes which either supplement information given in The Handbook or give further instances of behaviour already fully reported ...
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Notes

01 February 1952
Comments Notes vol. xliv, p . 202) of a record of Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) apparently hiding pine cones has brought in several further notes on this subject. Lord David Stuart, on several occasions in October, 1943, saw Rooks burying pine cones in a grass field at Nova...
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