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01 February 1957 Comments Letters ICELAND R E D W I N G S WINTERING SIRS,--October 1956 saw an unparalleled " i n v a s i o n " of Iceland Redwings (Turdus musicus coburni) through Fair Isle, big movements occurring on the i2th, i8th-2oth and 2zLth-25th with westerly weather. Of 333 Redwi...

Reviews

01 February 1957 Comments Reviews By K. E. L. SIMMONS. Reprinted (1956) from Ã„vicultural Magazine, vol. 61, pp. 3-13, 93-102, 131-146, 181-201, 235-253, 294-316. Obtainable from A. A. Prestwich, 61 Chase Road, London, N.14. Price 5s. M R . SIMMONS'S paper is really a miniature monogr...

Notes

01 February 1957 Comments Notes Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ãœ1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXVIII. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull

01 February 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates 9-1i) W E are fortunate to be able to publish this month photographs from Hungary of the Mediterranean Black-headed Gull (Larus melanocephalus) taken by D r . Peter Beretzk of the University of Szeged. D r . Beretzk has also been kind enough to gi...

Report on bird-ringing for 1955

01 February 1957 Comments Main paper Secretary, Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology. THIS is the nineteenthf report issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee. It combines a report on the progress of ringing during 1955 with a selected list of recoveries reported ...

Notes

01 October 1946 Comments Notes THE following records of young birds returning to their nest after having left it may be of interest (cf. antea, pp. 26, 152, 178, 246). Greenfinch (Chloris c. chloris). Five hatched. Flew May 30th, 1946. Back in nest 4.30 p.m., summer time, and remained...

Gannets breeding in the channel Islands : Two new Colonies

01 October 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 40-42). THE first indication we have of the breeding of the Gannet (Sula bassana) in the Channel Islands came in the summer of 1945, when an Alderney fisherman, Mr. E. Quinain, returning home after an enforced absence of five years, noticed that ...

Preliminary Observations on a colony of Reed-Warblers

01 October 1946 Comments Main paper THE reed-bed (Phragmites) where the following observations on a colony of Reed-Warblers (Acrocephalus s. scirpaceus) were carried out is situated in the parish of North Cotes, Lincolnshire, immed iately within the embankment marking the boundary between t...

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Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXVIII. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull

Report on bird-ringing for 1955

Notes

Gannets breeding in the channel Islands : Two new Colonies

Preliminary Observations on a colony of Reed-Warblers

Letters

THE EGG-DEVOURING HABIT OF THE CUCKOO

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