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01 January 1962 Comments News and comment [These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] Our last summary reviewed the occurrences of unusual Passerines and of all American species from early August to November, against a background of the more striking movements of common land ...

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01 January 1962 Comments Notes G o l d e n E a g l e a t t a c k i n g Reindeer.--With reference to the recent papers by Dr. K. Curry-Lindahl and Dr. G. Bergman on the food and feeding habits of birds of prey in Fenno-Scandia (Brit, Birds, 54: 297-306, 307-320), it may be of interest t...

Studies of less familiar birds 116. Crested Lark

01 January 1962 Comments Main paper cristatd) here, but they show the salient features very well. The species gets its name from the long upstanding crest which arises from the middle of its crown and which is conspicuous even when depressed. Many other larks have crests and inexperienced o...

Observations on a Honey Buzzard digging out a wasps' nest

01 January 1962 Comments Main paper O N 22ND A N D 23RD S E P T E M B E R I 9 5 9, I had an opportunity of watching and photographing a Honey Buzzard (Perms apivorus) digging out a wasps' nest in Utterslev Mose, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The wasps were of the common species (Vespa vulga...

A study of suburban bird-life at Dollis Hill

01 January 1962 Comments Open Access IntroductionUntil the present time no thorough or systematic survey of the distribution and behaviour of the birds of a suburban area has appeared since F . D . Power's Ornithological Notes from a South London Suburb...

Notes on Breeding of Black Redstarts in Kent

01 February 1941 Comments Main paper IN the summer of 1940 I was fortunate enough to be able to make some observations on two pairs of Black Redstarts (Phasnicurus o. gibraltariensis), which I found breeding in the Medway area in Kent. I watched the first pair ("A") as often as possible and ...

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01 January 1941 Comments Notes ON November 2nd, 1940, in a field with small trees at the edge of a wood near Potter's Bar, I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity of watching a bird, which was evidently a Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor). The bird flew to the top of a bare hawt...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 January 1941 Comments Main paper Thornton - le - dale (Yorks), Bedlington (Northumb), 4.1.39, by R. M. Garnett. 7-3-4°Wetherby (Yorks), 30.1.2.39, by Preston (Lanes), --.2.40. Bootham School. Gt. Budworth (Ches), 12.11.38, Grantham (Lines), Spring, by A. W. Boyd. 194°Ditto 22.11.37. M...

Some Notes on the Scottish Crested Tit

01 January 1941 Comments Main paper THESE notes on the Scottish Crested Tit (Parus c. scoticus) are supplementary to those already published by Winifred M. Ross [i] and D. Nethersole-Thompson [2]. They are the result of four visits to the Cairngorm country in 1935, 1937, 1938 and 1940, duri...

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Studies of less familiar birds 116. Crested Lark

Observations on a Honey Buzzard digging out a wasps' nest

A study of suburban bird-life at Dollis Hill

Notes on Breeding of Black Redstarts in Kent

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Recovery of Marked Birds

Some Notes on the Scottish Crested Tit

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