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Subscription Changes

01 August 1984 Comments Editorials Our major costs--printing and paper--are rising at considerably more than the rate of inflation, but the current success of BB has enabled us to keep this year's annual subscription increase down to less than 4.8%. We have retained the reduced subscrip...

Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 August 1984 Comments Other 'On June 27th last I saw on the Bempton Cliffs an undoubted example of Brünnich's Guillemot (Uria bruennichi). I saw this bird several times as it always returned to the same ledge in company with a Common Guillemot, and it was not more than 40 or 50 ...

Points of View. 9. A kindly word

01 August 1984 Comments Main paper A kindly word. Upstaging fellow devotees became respectable when Stephen Potter produced his Lifemanship and Oneupmanship books. Some readers may remember the late James Fisher reviewing the 'Birdmanship' chapter in one of the old 'Birds in Bri...

Mystery Photographs

01 August 1984 Comments Main paper The hooded gull in last month's mystery photograph (plate 112, repeated here as plate 134) was present at Radipole, Dorset, on 13th April 1980. The picture was taken by Brian Holmes, and is one of a series taken by him and other photographers...

Photospot. 5 Pygmy Owl

01 August 1984 Comments Main paper Despite being the smallest European owl, little larger than a Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula, the Pygmy Owl Glaucidium passerinum is a true owl in every respect. When excited, it jerks its tail sideways, and after alighting in a tree it usually cocks it u...

Product Reports

01 August 1984 Comments Main paper Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...

Identification of Juvenile Yellow-legged Herring Gulls

01 August 1984 Comments Main paper With the northwards extension of the breeding and non-breeding ranges of the west Mediterranean yellow-legged race of the Herring Gull Larus argentatus michahellis* in recent years (Nicolau-Guillaumet 1977; de Heer 1981; Devillers & Potvliege 1981;...

Notice

01 March 1957 Comments Editorials Bird Observatories : new appointments. --Â· Mr. Kenneth Williamson, who has been Director of the Fair Isle Bird Observatory since it was established in 1948, is leaving the Observatory shortly. To replace Mr. Williamson, the Fair Is!e Bird Observatory- ...

Letters

01 March 1957 Comments Letters T H E BIRDS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE SIRS,--Material is being- collected for a small book on the birds of Gloucestershire by H. H. Davis, C. M. Swaine and myself; we have already made considerable progress in assembling infprmation. W e would be grateful for fu...

Reviews

01 March 1957 Comments Reviews Illustrated by PETER SCOTT (Country Life, London, 1956). Vol. I I . 232 pages, 24 colour plates, 29 maps. £6 6s. IN this second volume Mr. Delacour deals mainly with the dabbling or surface-feeding ducks of the genus Anas, in which are grouped 38 sp...

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