Recent reports

01 January 1968 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is basically concerned with the month of November, but also includes a few relevant records from early December and some belated observations relating to the July-October period...
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News and comments

01 January 1968 Comments News and comment N e w Protection of Birds Act.---The Protection of Birds Act 1967, which comes into force this month, contains a number of provisions that will affect many keen field-ornithologists and bird-photographers in England, Scotland and Wales. Any person wishing...
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Letters

01 January 1968 Comments Letters Little or White-rumped Swift ? Sirs,---The interesting article by I. J. Ferguson-Lees on Apus affinis {Brit. Birds, 60: 286-290) prompts me to raise two points. The first is the choice of the vernacular name 'White-rumped Swift' in preference to that of '...
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Notes

01 January 1968 Comments Notes Feeding relationship between mullet and Herring Gulls.--On 26th August 1967, at Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, I watched a shoal of mullet Mugil sp. swimming in ten feet of water alongside a small trawler tied up in the North Harbour. These mullet were lift...
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Diving times of grebes

01 January 1968 Comments Main paper During August to October 1966 I made regular observations on the diving of the Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podkeps which lived in a well-defined territory on the west side of Chew Valley Lake, Somerset (Ladhams, Prytherch and Simmons 1967). The results p...
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Recent reports and news

01 April 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writer's judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted in case a report ...
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Request for information

01 April 1958 Comments Editorials THE 1957 IRRUPTIONS OF TITS A N D OTHER SPECIES : INTERIM REPORT In view of the great interest in the irruptions of tits (Parus spp.) and certain other birds in the autumn of 1957 (antea, p. 130; and vol. L, pp. 495 and 542), we asked the organizers of th...
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Letters

01 April 1958 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I should be most grateful if anyone who has any specimens of flatflies (Hippoboscidae), taken from birds, would lend or give them to me for examination connected with my research at the D e p a r t m e n t of Zoology, University of Hull, Yor...
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