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01 February 1958 Comments Reviews p a g e s ; coloured frontispiece by Roland Green; 12 photographic plates. (Witherby, London, 1957). 21s. INTENDED to provide detailed practical information for keepers, and would-be keepers, of waterfowl, this small book fulfils its aims admirably. A wor...

Notes

01 February 1958 Comments Notes Leach's Petrels in Shetland.--On 6th August 1957, Leach's Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) were located over the boulderstrewn slopes of The Noup, Foula, Shetland. One was caught and at the same time two others could be heard calling- in flight. One was a...

Reports from Britain of Black-headed Gulls Ringed in the Oberlausitz, East Germany

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper " L A R G E NUMBERS of ringed Black-headed Gulls (Larus ridibundus) are reported in Britain each winter, the places of origin being chiefly the countries of northern Europe, with a not inconsiderable number from Czecho-Slovakia, Saxony and B a v a r i a "...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXV. Pygmy Owl

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper T H E PYGMY O W L (Glaucidiutn passerimitn) is a Palaearctic species which h a s not yet been recorded in Britain, though in western Europe t h e typical form is found in central and northern Scandinavia, Finland, French Jura, the Alps (including - Switze...

British recoveries of birds Ringed Abroad

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper [This list continues from that published in 1956 (antes, vol. xlix, pp. 438-452). Among records of special interest included in it are a number relating to wildfowl, which help to show the lelation of breeding areas to winter quarters. Camargue-ringed Mal...

The birds of Tiree and Coll

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper of Zoology, Glasgow University*) (Plates 18-20) T H E islands of Tiree and Coll, Inner Hebrides, lie totally within the vice-county Mid Ebudes (103). Situated between Mull and the Barra Isles, they stretch some 45 miles S . W . into the ocean from Ardnamu...

Letter

01 April 1953 Comments Letters SIRS.--I am trying to collect information about ultra-quiet bird song (sub-song, etc.) and I should be grateful if you would allow me to appeal through the medium of British Birds for any help that other observers can give me. As records on this subject a...

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01 April 1953 Comments Reviews Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society. Twenty-first Annual Report, 1951. Edited by B. H. Ryves, A. G. Parsons and H. M. Quick. T H I S report follows its usual make-up, with systematic notes split up over 3 sections ; there are also separate ta...

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01 April 1953 Comments Reviews Mountain Birds. By R. A. H. Coombes. Plates by G. E. Lodge. (Penguin Books, King Penguin series, London, 1952). 4s. 6d. Mountain Birds is written and illustrated with grasp and originality, but is only permitted by the King Penguin format to deal with six...

Secondary song: a tentative classification

01 April 1953 Comments Main paper MY object in this short paper is to suggest a more exact terminology as a preliminary to further investigation of the fascinating problems of those quiet secondary songs which, since Nicholson (1927) drew attention to them, have come to be generally known...

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Reports from Britain of Black-headed Gulls Ringed in the Oberlausitz, East Germany

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXV. Pygmy Owl

British recoveries of birds Ringed Abroad

The birds of Tiree and Coll

Letter

Reviews

Reviews

Secondary song: a tentative classification

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