Recent reports and News

01 March 1959
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...
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Letters

01 March 1959
Comments Letters "SUB-SONG" AND "SECONDARY SONG" SIRS,---With regard to the paper by Miss P. M. Piicher and myself on "The nature of sub-song" (antea, vol. li, pp. 509-514), I very much regret to find that we were incorrect in stating that the term "sub-song" was used by ...
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Reviews

01 March 1959
Comments Reviews By JAMES C. GREENWAY, Jnr. Illustrated by D. M. REID-HENRY. (Special Publication No. 13, American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, New York, 1958). 518 pages; a coloured frontispiece and 86 ink drawings; maps and diagrams. THIS IS A DISP...
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Notes

01 March 1959
Comments Notes Display of Little Grebe.--A display by a Little Grebe (Padiceps ruficolUs) near Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorkshire, on 4th May 1957, seems to have been a form of penguin-dance (antea, vol. L, pp. 269-270) and does not appear to' be covered by the account in The ...
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Letters

01 December 1950
Comments Letters SIRS,---A note recently published in British Birds (antea, p. 89) commenting on the presence of Bewick's Swans a t Malltraeth, suggests t h a t the status of this species in Anglesey is t h a t of a n occasional visitor. These birds are, however, more reg...
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Review

01 December 1950
Comments Reviews Robin Redbreast. By David Lack. (Oxford University Press ; L o n d o n : Geoffrey Cumberlege. 15/-). In this volume, which appears to be a by-product of his earlier work and is a sort of ornithological jeu d'esprit, Dr. Lack deals with the " unnatural h i...
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Notes

01 December 1950
Comments Notes " A N T I N G " OF CARRION CROW ON June 15th, 1949, at Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, 1 observed a Carrion Crow (Corvus corone), at a distance of twenty yards, behaving in a peculiar manner. It was squatting on the grass with its feathers widespread. At hal...
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