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Recent Reports and News

01 August 1960 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 writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to he reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

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Reviews

01 August 1960 Comments Reviews The Bird in the Hand. By R. K. Cornwallis and A. E. Smith. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, i960. 69 pages. 4s. (Obtainable from the B.T.O., 2 King Edward Street, Oxford, at 4s. 6d. including postage.) At last the bird-ringer has available the type ...

Notes

01 August 1960 Comments Notes Attempted coition by Little Stints on autumn passage.--At Radipole Lake, Weymouth, Dorset, on 4th October 1957, I became very interested in the behaviour of two Little Stints (Calidris minutd). One was making short runs or low level flights across a shall...

The past status of the Brent Goose

01 August 1960 Comments Main paper the use of extracts from the British literature to obtain historical estimates of the numbers of the Darkbreasted and Pale-breasted Brent Geese (Branta bernicla bernicla and hrotd). Salomonsen (1958) stated that "the number of Dark-breasted Brents winteri...

Autumn "drift-migration" on the English east coast

01 August 1960 Comments Main paper etc.), the view is now widely accepted that the appearances of Continental night-migrants on the British east coast in autumn are much too infrequent and irregular to be explained in terms of a regular passage there, and instead they are attributed to "dr...

Some photographs of Woodpigeon behaviour and feeding

01 August 1960 Comments Main paper behaviour patterns of the Woodpigeon {Columba palumbus). Then Cramp (1958) described the main features of territorial and nesting behaviour throughout the breeding season, as a result of a study of this species in the London parks and squares. Reference t...

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 ...

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...

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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