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01 January 1958 Comments News and comment By I. J. FERGUSON-LEES In order to give our readers as up-to-date as possible a picture of recent reports of rare birds, of interesting movements and "invasions", and of other news of general interest, it has been decided to try, as an experiment, a month...

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01 January 1958 Comments Editorials The Scientific Advisory Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology recently decided that publicity should be given in Bird Study, the quarterly journal of the B.T.O., to analyses which will be the subject of future papers in British Birds. We are ple...

Reviews

01 January 1958 Comments Reviews Illustrated by PETER SCOTT. (Collins, London, 1957). 192 p a g e s ; many black-and-white drawings. 21s. T H I S IS a delightful book; its author is both an expert wildfowler and a keen ornithologist, and his writings prove that it is possible to combine ...

Notes

01 January 1958 Comments Notes Mr. Stephen Brady brought into the Bolton Museum a Snipe (Capella gallinago) which he had picked up dead near Rumworth Reservoir, Bolton, Lancashire. The bird was very stale, but I managed to preserve it since at first glance it was extremely dark. Subseq...

Notes on the Wren in the Aran Islands, Ireland

01 January 1958 Comments Main paper W H A T MAY be described as the integrative pattern of the breedingbehaviour of the W r e n (Troglodytes troglodytes) varies in different types of environment (Armstrong, 1950-57). Differences in behaviour patterns are so integrated in this species, and n...

Uncommon migrants at Portland Bill during the Autumn of 1956

01 January 1958 Comments Main paper (approximately one square mile) of Portland Bill, Dorset, during the autumn of 1956, have been taken from the daily journals maintained at Portland Bird Observatory. Full details of the birds seen have been submitted to the Editors of British Birds. For t...

Broken eggs in Peregrine Eyries

01 January 1958 Comments Main paper number of eyries of the Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) that I examined, there were fourteen in which one or more e g g s were either broken or disappeared, with no evidence of human or other outside interference. This would seem a larger number than could b...

An ecological sketch of the Coto Donana

01 January 1958 Comments Main paper (Plates 1-12) T H E RIVER GUADALQUIVIR flows a distance of some 360 miles in Andalusia in southern Spain, before entering the Atlantic Ocean below Sanlucar, about 70 miles north-west of Tarifa and the narrowest part of the Straits of Gibraltar. For the la...

Reviews

01 April 1956 Comments Reviews with field assistance by GEORGE EDWARDS. (Faber and Faber, London, 1955). 128 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 18s. Birds Fighting is one of the first bird books to be illustrated mainly with electronic flash photographs. A number of them have already appeared in t...

Notes

01 April 1956 Comments Notes Purple Heron in Surrey.--On 18th September 1955 I disturbed a juvenile Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) in a patch of rather close-growing reeds at the south end of Frensham Little Pond, six miles N . W . of Haslemere, Surrey. First seen indistinctly in the ...

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Notes on the Wren in the Aran Islands, Ireland

Uncommon migrants at Portland Bill during the Autumn of 1956

Broken eggs in Peregrine Eyries

An ecological sketch of the Coto Donana

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