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 ...
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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...
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Reviews

01 July 1939 Comments Reviews Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, Vol. X X I , Part I. T H I S contains a very well deserved tribute to Mr. Charles Oldham, signed by a number of naturalist friends and addressed to him on the occasion of his sevent...
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Notes

01 July 1939 Comments Notes I THINK it will be of interest to record a case of bigamy in Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus), which I had under observation in England during the summer of 1938. It is well known that this species has a tendency to nest in small colonies, but I do no...
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