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01 October 1961 Comments Letters The need for distinctive bird names Sirs,--In an editorial in January 1953 (Brit. Birds, 46: 1-3) you announced that you tentatively proposed to desert the current usage of that time, as represented by The Handbook, of British Birds (1938-41), and change ...

Notes

01 October 1961 Comments Notes Little Grebe eating bread.--On 3rd September 1961, we were standing by a lake in Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, when we noted that a Little Grebe (Podsceps ruficollis) showed interest at the approach of some people to feed the water fowl. As soon as they ...

An immature male Tufted Duck X Pochard hybrid

01 October 1961 Comments Main paper Perrins (1961) gave a detailed description of a duck seen at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, in December 1957 and subsequent winters; it had at one time been identified as a Lesser Scaup {Aythya affinii), but, on being shot in March i960, it was diagnosed as...

Studies of less familiar birds 114. Bonelli's Warbler

01 October 1961 Comments Main paper The Handbook because the species had not been recorded in Britain when that work was written. It was, in fact, only thirteen years ago that the first one was found over here--at Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, on 31st August 1948 (Conder and Keighley 1949)--but ...

The vocabulary of the Great Tit

01 October 1961 Comments Main paper T H E V O C A B U L A R Y of the Great Tit (Parus major) is notorious for its variety. Nicholson (1936) remarked that "a proper description of the Great Tit's language would almost require a book to itself, for no other British bird uses such a wide varie...

Review

01 August 1939 Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory. Report for 1938. As this interesting report shows, Mr, R. M. Lockley is gradually building up at Skokholm a bird observatory which is doing valuable work. A large number of people visited the island during t h e year and helped ...

Notes

01 August 1939 Comments Notes EASILY the outstanding ornithological event in Sussex for the year 1939 was the accomplished breeding, for the first time since about 1895, of a pair of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in a sea-cliff some miles removed from the one in which, in 1938, (?) anothe...

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

01 August 1939 Comments Obituaries (1879-1939-) ornithology has suffered a severe loss in the death of the Rev. E. U. Savage on June 23rd, 1939, at the age of sixty. Since ill health forced him to retire two years ago, he had lived at Staveley, Westmorland, and before that he held livings...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

01 August 1939 Comments Main paper LEACH, HITHERTO in this series of articles we have thought it best to collect together all records of ringed birds, which have moved either from this country to abroad or from abroad to this country. This has meant a certain amount of duplication as the ...

Timing the Under-water Activities of Diving Birds

01 August 1939 Comments Main paper ACCORDING to the 20-10 seconds rule the average period of the dive in 6 feet of water is 20 seconds, and it is suggested that of this period, 10 seconds are spent in going up and down and 10 seconds on the bottom in search of food (Dewar, 1924). As a dir...

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Letters

Notes

An immature male Tufted Duck X Pochard hybrid

Studies of less familiar birds 114. Bonelli's Warbler

The vocabulary of the Great Tit

Review

Notes

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

Timing the Under-water Activities of Diving Birds

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