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01 July 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--At a meeting held in Aberdaron on March 7th, 1953, a committee was formed to establish a permanent observatory on the island of Bardsey. The position of the Island, at the very tip of the Lleyn Peninsula, makes it an ideal site for the study of bir...

Notice and Requests for Information

01 July 1953 Comments Editorials Ornithological Congress, presided over by Sir Landsborough Thomson, London, will be held in Basle, Switzerland, from May 29th to June 5th, 1954. During the week of the Congress, 5 days will be devoted to meetings and 2 to excursions. Before and after the ...

Reviews

01 July 1953 Comments Reviews Yorkshire Birds. By Ralph Chislett. (A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., 1953). 25s. Mr. Chislett lists among his qualifications for this work a professional training as a chartered accountant, and although he notes sadly that the application to bird records of effect...

Notes

01 July 1953 Comments Notes Birds with abnormal bills.--With reference to previous notes on this subject (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 60, 349-50; vol. xlv, p. 402), we have received several more records of bill deformities and the following are worth quoting :OYSTERCATCHER (Hcetnatopus os...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. L. Little Egret

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 36-41) LITTLE EGRETS (Egretta garzetta) had been recorded in the British Isles only on some twelve occasions before 1952 when, however (see p p . 255-258), the species w a s observed in four counties-- Cornwall (March 2nd-i7th), Norfolk (May 7 t h...

The migrations of the Lesser Black-backed Gull

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper T H E following- report covers the summer extension of an Enquiry into the status of the Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) which was opened in November, 1949. Owing- to the promising response to the announcement of this enquiry by the British Trust ...

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper FOUR previous papers have appeared in British Birds giving the results of field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit (Parus palustris), based on a study of colour-ringed and some unringed individuals in a 50-acre tract of W e s t Wood, Bagley, N. ...

Letter

01 November 1946 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have observed no less than twenty-three instances between February 27th and March 7th, 1946, where one Rook (Corvus f. frugUegus) was either in or standing upon t h e nest with two attendant Rooks perched close together a t some twelve t o ...

Reviews

01 November 1946 Comments Reviews Birds in Colour. By Walter Higham. (Collins, 1945). Price 25s. T H I S book comes as something of a shock to those who are acquainted with the excellence of the colour rendering in Mr. Higham's cinematograph films. The gap between colour transparencies an...

Notes

01 November 1946 Comments Notes RAVEN NESTING IN A ROOKERY, ON March loth, 1946, I flushed a Raven (Corvus c. cor ax) from a nest at the top of a tall pine in a conifer wood about five miles from Cardiff. In view of previous records of this species nesting in rookeries (antea, Vol. xxx...

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Letters

Notice and Requests for Information

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Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. L. Little Egret

The migrations of the Lesser Black-backed Gull

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

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Reviews

Notes

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