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01 April 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. Miller Christy, in his very interesting letter in your last issue (p. 91), remarks t h a t I have n o t done justice t o the bird-life on Walthamstow Reservoirs, b u t I must point o u t t h a t m y note was only intended to record t h e nestin...

Reviews

01 April 1963 Comments Reviews Aberdeen University Bird-migration Inquiry: First Interim Report (1909-12). By A. Landsborough Thomson, M.A., M.B.O.U. (Reprinted from the Scottish Naturalist, July, October, November, 1912 ; February, April and June, 1913.) THESE papers give details of t...

Notes

01 April 1963 Comments Notes W E have received a good many schedules relating to these two inquiries (see Vol. VI., pp. 296-311, and Vol. VII, pp. 4-6), but we sincerely hope that many more of our readers will send in particulars. This should now be done without delay, and if the fo...

On Incubation

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper As has previously been shown,* many birds belonging to various Orders commence incubation upon the laying of the first egg. This habit is undoubtedly of the utmost value to many species, saving the eggs from destruction by the numerous animals which devou...

Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Common Eider. As Observed in the Outer Hebrides.

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper this summer (1913) we found a good many pairs of Eiders (Somateria m. mollissima) nesting in the northern portion of a certain large fresh-water loch in the Outer Hebrides, The birds were, however, very shy at the nest, and even with a long-focus lens it ...

On the Breeding-Season and Clutch of the Steganopodes. (Cormorant, Shag, and Gannet.)

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper ONLY three members of this Order figure on the British List, and some of the facts concerning their reproductive habits are sufficiently interesting to deserve a fuller treatment than they have received up to the present in the standard books on the habi...

Letters

01 September 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Vosges mountains in France during the first World War earthenware pots especially designed for sparrows to nest in were to be seen on the walls of a great many farms and I have no doubt the practice still persists. These served a double purp...

Reviews

01 September 1953 Comments Reviews Rare and Extinct Birds of Britain. By Ralph Whitlock. (Phcenix House, London, 1953). 21s. I t is open to question whether a satisfactory book can be written on the subject of our rare and extinct birds. To contribute anything original to knowledge in this...

Notes

01 September 1953 Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

01 September 1953 Comments Main paper MAY (1949) asserts that as pair-formation behaviour patterns " a r e not related to the sex act, which is the criterion for 'sexual behaviour' " , pair-formation is not sexual behaviour, at any rate in the Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) which he...

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Letters

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Notes

On Incubation

Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Common Eider. As Observed in the Outer Hebrides.

On the Breeding-Season and Clutch of the Steganopodes. (Cormorant, Shag, and Gannet.)

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

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