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01 March 1963 Comments Letters SIES,--Mr. Glegg's note in your current number (Vol. VII., p. 56) concerning the nest of this species which he found beside one of the reservoirs a t Walthamstow on J u n e 11th, hardly does full justice to the extraordinary wealth of bird-life to be seen...

Notes

01 March 1963 Comments Notes IT is gratifying to see Mr. C. S. Meares's note on th Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) breeding in Shropshire an Norfolk (British Birds, Vol. VI., p. 371), and to find that i has also bred in Surrey (Countryside, Vol. V., p. 387). Ther can be no doubt as...

The Sequence of Plumages of the Common Eider

01 March 1963 Comments Main paper accounts have appeared in the works of naturalists on the subject of the plumage of the male and female Eider (Somateria m. mollissima) and the age at which the sexes arrive at maturity. In nearly all of these there is much guesswork owing to the small se...

Obituary: The Late Philip Lutley Sclater

01 March 1963 Comments Obituaries W E greatly regret to announce the death, on June 27th, 1913, as the result of a carriage accident, of Philip Lutley Sclater, D.Sc, F.R.S., at the age of eightythree years. The loss of so eminent an ornithologist will be deeply felt by all bird-lovers, an...

Recent Reports and News

01 October 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not he regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Reviews

01 October 1960 Comments Reviews The Voices of Wild Birds in Nature (recordings). Recorded by Boris N . Weprinezev. Published by the Ail-Union Studio of Disc Recordings (No. 6227/8), i960, and to be obtainable through Collets Record Shop, 70 N e w Oxford Street, London, W.C.i. Price prob...

Special review The Helsinki Congress and the future

01 October 1960 Comments Reviews Proceedings of the XII International Ornithological Congress (Helsinki, 5th-i2th June 1958). Edited by G. Bergman, K. O. Donner and L. von Haartman. Tilgmannin Kirjapaino, Helsinki, i960. Vol. I, 436 pages; Vol. II, 384 pages; both with diagrams, maps and...

Notes

01 October 1960 Comments Notes Little Ringed Plover "foot-tapping" to collect food.--On 2nd April i960, at a reservoir near the Suffolk coast, I watched a Little Ringed Plover {Charadrius dubius) feeding on the muddy bottom of a drained pond. It was tripping methodically around and eve...

Observations from a light-vessel on Passerine immigration into the Wash in autumn 1956

01 October 1960 Comments Main paper A L T H O U G H trans-North Sea migration in autumn has previously been studied from East Coast light-vessels, all the earlier accounts have been limited to observations made in the narrower southern part of the North Sea, and refer mainly to immigrants m...

Studies of less familiar birds 107. Needle-tailed Swift

01 October 1960 Comments Main paper such a little known bird as the Needle-tailed Swift (Chaetura caudacutd). The typical race of this species breeds in Siberia (much further west than is suggested by The Handbook--see below), extending south into Mongolia and Manchuria and east to Sakhalin...

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Letters

Notes

The Sequence of Plumages of the Common Eider

Obituary: The Late Philip Lutley Sclater

Recent Reports and News

Reviews

Special review The Helsinki Congress and the future

Notes

Observations from a light-vessel on Passerine immigration into the Wash in autumn 1956

Studies of less familiar birds 107. Needle-tailed Swift

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