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Recent reports: End of August to mid November

01 December 1965 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the two and a half months from the end of August to mid-November and thus follows on after the one published in the September issue {Brit. Birds, 5 8: 3...

News and comment

01 December 1965 Comments News and comment World Wildlife Fund's report.--The World Wildlife Fund has just issued its first report, entitled The Launching of the Nest Ark (published by Collins, and obtainable at 13s. fid, post free from 2 Caxton Street, London, S.W.i, or any bookseller). Edited by...

International ornithological Congress Oxford, 24th to 30th July 1966

01 December 1965 Comments Editorials The broad details of the XIV International Ornithological Congress were announced earlier this year (Brit. Birds, 58: 156-157). Preparations for it and the preceding week's cruise round Scottish bird-islands from 16th to 22nd July are now well advanced. B...

Letters

01 December 1965 Comments Letters 'The original misidentification of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbier' Sirs,--The letter from R. H. Charlwood and D. D . Harber (Brit. Birds, 58: 225-227) contains a garbled account of what happened at Titchfield Haven, Hampshire, in connection with the identi...

Reviews

01 December 1965 Comments Reviews Enjoying Ornithology. By David Lack. Illustrated by Robert Gillmor. Methuen, London, 1965. 264 pages; 3 black-andwhite plates; many line-drawings. 30s. Discussing how the scientific repute of ornithology declined in Britain during the early part of this c...

Notes

01 December 1965 Comments Notes The feeding range of Shags.--Feeding movements by sea-birds are difficult to measure as they often take the form of a seaward or coast wise spread. Occasionally, however, when the feeding area is separated from the roost by obviously unsuitable water, def...

Studies of less familiar birds: 138. Great Snipe

01 December 1965 Comments Main paper T H E G R E A T S N I P E Gallinago media is decidedly larger than the Snipe G. gallinago. Kolthoff (1896) found that it ranged in weight from 140 grams in thin specimens to 213 grams in a very fat one, while Snipe averaged only 120 grams; Niethammer (194...

Moult and its relation to taxonomy in Rock and Water Pipits

01 December 1965 Comments Main paper T w o S U C C E S S I V E list-committees of the British Ornithologists' Union have held widely divergent views on the taxonomic treatment of the Rock Pipit populations of the British Isles, and there is clearly a little-understood problem of geographical...

The breeding status of the Black Redstart in Great Britain

01 December 1965 Comments Main paper F R O M 1943 T O 1949 annual reports of the Black Redstart Inquiry appeared in British Birds (Fitter 1944-50). It was then decided to abandon the annual attempt to obtain records direct from observers at the end of the breeding season and, instead, to rel...

Recent reports and news

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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