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01 September 1958 Comments Notes Little Shearwater in Cheshire.--On ioth May 1958 a living bird was picked up by school-children in a field near Stockport, Cheshire, and eventually came into the hands of one of us (C.G.B.) from Inspector Brooks of the R . S . P . C . A . The bird was not...

Obituary: William Stanley Cowin (1907-1958)

01 September 1958 Comments Obituaries H i s MANY FRIENDS and correspondents throughout the United Kingdom will learn with regret of the sudden death of W . S. (Will) Cowin, of Douglas, Isle of Man, on 29th June 1958, a t the early a g e of fifty. Born in Douglas on 17th August 1907, Will Cowi...

Migrant land-birds in the Western Approaches

01 September 1958 Comments Main paper the last three weeks of October, the first-named author served with the scientific staff of " W e a t h e r Observer", a weather-ship of the Marine Branch, Meteorological Office (Air Ministry), at station " K i l o " in latitude 45Â°N. and longitude i 6...

An Ecological sketch of the Camargue

01 September 1958 Comments Main paper T H E RHONE, creator of the Camargue, is born among glaciers and continues as a mountain torrent in its upper reaches, yet long before it touches the Camargue it becomes merely a large gentlyflowing river. Lyons, 310 kilometres from its mouth, is only 169...

Recent reports and news

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

Reviews

01 September 1958 Comments Reviews By N . TINBERGEN. {Country Life, London, 1958). 280 p a g e s ; illustrated. 35s. IN HIS PREFACE, D r . Tinbergen writes that he long hesitated about writing this semi-autobiographical book, and repeatedly in the main text he seems to find it necessary t...

Letters

01 January 1938 Comments Letters SIRS,---Miss Hibbert-Ware (Little Owl Inquiry, antea, pp. 215-216) prefaces her remarks on Little Owls 011 Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, with the w o r d s : " T h e following incident seems, however, t o contradict these conclusions [that t h e Little ...

Reviews

01 January 1938 Comments Reviews Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow. Vol. I. A Population Study of the Song Sparrow. By Margaret M. Nice. Transactions of the Linnean Society of New York, IV : April 1937. 2 47PP- 3 plates, 18 charts, 33 tables. (American Museum of Natural His...

Notes

01 January 1938 Comments Notes As there is apparently no previous record for the Outer Hebrides, it may be of interest to report that a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) was killed in North Uist on October 27th, 1937, and that I saw another at Newton Lodge, North Uist, on No...

Some records of the calls and Cries of British "Waders"

01 January 1938 Comments Main paper have often been made to put down in writing a rendering of the notes of birds. A difficulty at once presents itself from the fact that few of these renderings really correspond adequately with the original. Yet they have a certain value because they serve...

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Notes

Obituary: William Stanley Cowin (1907-1958)

Migrant land-birds in the Western Approaches

An Ecological sketch of the Camargue

Recent reports and news

Reviews

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Some records of the calls and Cries of British "Waders"

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