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01 February 1961 Comments Reviews Vara Faglar i Norden (Our Birds in the North). Second edition edited by Kai Curry-LindaM (Swedish text). Bokforlaget Natur och Cultur, Stockholm, 1959 and i960. Volumes I and II, 1022 pages; coloured and black-and-white plates, and maps, (Four volumes: Sw...

Notes

01 February 1961 Comments Notes Ring-necked Duck in Co. Armagh.--A male Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) stayed on the lake in the Public Park, Lurgan, Co. Armagh, from 20th March till 1st May i960 and was seen on many occasions by various observers. It then disappeared, but returned ...

Some photographic studies of the Nightjar

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper I N G E N E R A L W E TRY to publish photographs for their biological interest or because they illustrate points of identification, rather than for their aesthetic value. This aim is always borne in mind in the selection and presentation of the photograph...

An interpretation of variation in the dark-headed forms of the Yellow Wagtail

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper variation to be seen in the Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava). T h e chief mistake made by most investigators has been that of splitting the group into too many forms on the basis of too few specimens, the most flagrant example of this being in the monogra...

The " Lesser Scaup " problem

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper observations in Britain of ducks that were thought to be Lesser Scaups (Aythya affinis), a North American species not recorded in Europe. This note is based on a detailed examination of one of these --that first seen at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, in Dec...

Letters

01 February 1961 Comments Letters The Len Howard Appeal Sirs--All readers of Miss Len Howard's books Birds as Individuals and Living with Birds have been distressed to learn that her life's work is threatened by building on the land next to her garden sanctuary. For twenty-one years Miss ...

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...

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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...

British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

01 November 1956 Comments Main paper [This list continues from that published in 1952 (anted, vol. xlv, pp. 458-465), but is in the revised form now internationally adopted. There are a number of records of particular interest. The Herons include a Swedish bird 15J years old, recovered in Ir...

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Reviews

Notes

Some photographic studies of the Nightjar

An interpretation of variation in the dark-headed forms of the Yellow Wagtail

The " Lesser Scaup " problem

Letters

Letters

Reviews

Notes

British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

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