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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...

Notices and Requests for Information

01 August 1953 Comments Editorials Unusual passage of Firecrests.--It is evident t h a t a quite unusual number of Firecrests (Regulus ignicapillus) passed through the south and south-east of Britain, particularly in the region of the coast, during the late autumn of 1952 and the spring of...

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...

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...

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...

Notes on the spring Territory of the Blackbird

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper study was made on the Dartington Hall estate, South Devon, in 1940, when the abnormal cold weather in late January and early February made possible the trapping and colour-ringing of an unusually large number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. tnerula). Unfortunate...

Some breeding-habits of the Black-winged Stilt

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus k. himantopus) were made in the Camargue at the end of April and early May, 1937. For many reasons I was unable to observe the full breeding cycle. These notes therefore refer only to the bi...

Abstracts

01 August 1941 Comments Reviews Wuczeticz (1939). " Seasonal distribution and migration of ducks (subiam. Anatina) on the base of bird-ringing in the U.S.S.R. III. The Gadwall--Anas strepera L.; the Shoveler--Spatula clypeata (L.) ; the Wigeon--Mar tea penelope (L.)." Moscow (Russian a...

Notes

01 August 1941 Comments Notes IN 1939, as already recorded in British Birds, Vol. xxxiii, p. 194, a male Hooded Crow (Corvus c. comix) and a female Carrion-Crow (C. c. cowrie) nested in Co. Dublin and successfully reared their young. In 1940, presumably the same pair again nested in ...

Display in Blackbirds

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper display in Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula) has been so rarely observed or recorded that a brief description of a display I had the good fortune to witness this spring may prove of interest. Chancing to look out from the window of a house in a Sussex garden ...

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Letters

Notices and Requests for Information

Review

Notes

Report on bird-ringing for 1952

Notes on the spring Territory of the Blackbird

Some breeding-habits of the Black-winged Stilt

Abstracts

Notes

Display in Blackbirds

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