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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...

Books Received

01 May 1952 Comments Editorials Bird-watchers' Delight. By John Warham (Country Life. 18s.) The Birds of the Malav Peninsula, Singapore and Penang. By A. G. Glenister. (O.U.P. 35s.) Bird Recognition, 2. By James Fisher (Pelican Books, js. 6d.)...

Letters

01 May 1952 Comments Letters --The increasing use of various types of colour-marking for the field recognition of birds must lead to confusion between individual experiments unless an authoritative central register can be compiled. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the British Tru...

Reviews

01 May 1952 Comments Reviews The Study of Instinct. By N. Tinbergen. (Oxford U.P., 1951. 25s.). Field observers have long felt the need of an authoritative, condensed summing up of the vast but fragmentary and often contradictory mass of fact and theory which has been accumulating ab...

Obituary: Cecil Robert Vesey Stoney (1878-1952)

01 May 1952 Comments Obituaries STONEY, who died on February igth, 1952, in the Isle of Man, was one of the finest field ornithologists ever produced by Ireland. Stoney was a scholar of Shrewsbury and of Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in classics. After t...

The nesting of a pair of Blue Tits

01 May 1952 Comments Main paper 1951 we were able to study a pair of Blue Tits (Parus aeruleus) nesting in a garden at Wilnecote, north Warwickshire, and the following are some of the more outstanding observations. Both birds had been trapped and colour-ringed in the winter. They were t...

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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

Books Received

Letters

Reviews

Obituary: Cecil Robert Vesey Stoney (1878-1952)

The nesting of a pair of Blue Tits

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