May report

01 September 1976 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during May was generally warm with several hot spells, particularly in the second week, and was dominated by winds from a southerly quarter, which encouraged the overshooting of so...
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News and Comment

01 September 1976 Comments News and comment Endangered species The expected failure of the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Bill to become law in this Parliamentary session (Brit. Birds, 69: 156157) will allow conservationists and Government alike time to consider the reasoning behind passing...
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Reviews

01 December 1928 Comments Reviews Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, 1927. Edited by B. W. Tucker, M.A., M.B.O.U. is. 6d. THIS Report bears evidence of increased activity and great keenness on the part of the members. We...
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Letters

01 December 1928 Comments Letters SIRS,--Will you kindly allow me space to make enquiries concerning the present whereabouts of a clutch of two eggs of the Honey-Buzzard taken in the Quantocks, Somerset, on June 25th, 1899. These eggs were sold a t Stevens's on April 25th, 1906, ex collec...
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Notes

01 December 1928 Comments Notes T H E following incubation- and fledging-periods were obtained in 1928 (A) in west Sussex, (B) in north Wilts.; the incubation-periods being calculated from the day on which the last egg was laid and the fledging-periods from the day or days of hatching ...
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