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01 June 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded a* 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...

Letters

01 June 1959 Comments Letters FEEDING METHODS O F LONG-TAILED LARGE F O O D TITS WITH S I R S , -- I was interested to read Mrs. J. Hall-Craggs's description, together with Mr. Derek Goodwin's comments, of Long-tailed Tits (Aegithalos candatus) eating largish morsels of food whilst ha...

Notes

01 June 1959 Comments Notes residence in Shetland we took counts about once a week for two years of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) on an area of cliffs in southwest Mainland. The counts are given in full and discussed in The Fulmar (1952) by James Fisher (pp. 347 and 482-488). These F...

The plumage and leg colour of the Kittiwake and comments on the non-breeding population

01 June 1959 Comments Main paper IT IS an advantage in ecological studies to be able to divide a population into age groups or into mature and immature stages In the Laridae (gulls and terns), where the majority of species have a distinctive " i m m a t u r e " plumage, it has been assum...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCVIII. Squacco Heron

01 June 1959 Comments Main paper T H E HERONS AND BITTERNS (Ardeidae) a r e a world-wide family of some fifty-nine species, and all b u t four of the fifteen in the Palaearctic have extensive breeding ranges that take them much or all of the way across Asia and Europe, while ten of these...

Migration notes from the Western approaches, Spring 1958

01 June 1959 Comments Main paper DURING THE MONTH from 13th April to 13th May 1958 the firstnamed author did a tour of duty as meteorologist at the ocean weather-reporting station " K i l o " in the W e s t e r n Approaches, at approximately latitude 45Â°N., longitude i 6 Â° W . This...

Editorial

01 June 1959 Comments Editorials FIFTY YEARS AGO our issue of i s t June 1909 began with an Editorial announcing " w i t h great satifaction" the names of two "excellent ornithologists" who would thenceforth assist in the task of editing the magazine. One of these was Dr. Norman F . Tice...

Letters

01 November 1956 Comments Letters T H E R E A C T I O N S O F MAN A N D B I R D T O A S C O R P I O N S I R S , -- I n his letter on " T h e effects of model scorpion and lizard on a bird t a b l e " (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 556-557), Col. R. Meinertzhagen suggested that the fear-reaction...

Reviews

01 November 1956 Comments Reviews By DAVID LACK (Methuen, London, 1956). 239 p a g e s ; 10 half-tone plates; 24 text illustrations. 21s. N O T the least striking feature of that astonishing building, the University Museum of Science at Oxford, is the tower; for behind the ventilator sha...

Notes

01 November 1956 Comments Notes of Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius), each containing a clutch of four e g g s , were found at a gravel-pit in the Trent Valley in 1956; the first nest was discovered by A. Teather on 24th June, the second was confirmed by W . Priestley on 2nd July...

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The plumage and leg colour of the Kittiwake and comments on the non-breeding population

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCVIII. Squacco Heron

Migration notes from the Western approaches, Spring 1958

Editorial

Letters

Reviews

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