Notes

01 October 1972
Comments Notes Great Blue Herons coming on board ships in mid-Atlantic In late November 1968 reports appeared in the Bristol press that a heron had arrived at Avonmouth on a British merchantman, M.V. Pkardy, and had been taken to Rode Tropical Bird Gardens at Frome, Som...
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Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972
Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...
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Letters

01 August 1954
Comments Letters SIRS,--A little confusion was caused on the Isle of May in 1953 by people claiming to assign Bluethroats (Luscinia svecica) to the White-spotted race (L. s. cyanecula) on the strength of wing-measurements and the relative lengths of the primaries. They we...
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Reviews

01 August 1954
Comments Reviews Birds (in Hampshire, 1952). By Edwin Cohen. From Proc. Hampshire Field Club and Arch. Soc, vol. xviii, pt. 2 (1953). HAMPSHIRE is beyond question the weakest point in south coast ornithology, and, although Mr. Edwin Cohen in these two brief annotated list...
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Reviews

01 August 1954
Comments Reviews The Heron. By Frank A. Lowe. (Collins, London, 1954). 18s. FROM the time of the Early Egyptians, as the author tells us, the Heron has been referred to in literature and represented in art. As a figure in mythology, an item of food usually in the luxury c...
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