Reviews

01 July 1962
Comments Reviews Photographing Garden Birds. By C. H. S. Tupholme. Faber, London, 1962. 127 pages; 4 colour and 6 monochrome photographs. 18s. Some excellent suggestions are given on methods of attracting wild birds into the garden by establishing various trees, shrubs an...
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Notes

01 July 1962
Comments Notes Water Rail killing Little Stint and Eel.--With reference to the recent notes on Water Rails (Rallus aquaticus) killing a Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) and other small Passerines {Brit. Birds, 55: 132-133 and 165), I should like to record that on 4th Sept...
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Recent reports and News

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...
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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...
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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...
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