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01 November 1965 Comments Letters The problems of separating Reed and Marsh Warblers Sirs,--Having read with considerable interest the recent letters on the problems of separating Reed Warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus and Marsh Warblers A. palustris (Brit. Birds, 58: 181-188), I hope that...

Palearctic birds

01 November 1965 Comments Main paper The Birds of the Palearctic Fauna: a Systematic Reference (Non-Passeriformes). By Charles Vaurie. Witherby, London» 1965. x x i i + 7 6 4 pages. £ 7 7s. A L T H O U G H T H E P A L E A R C T I C unites such seemingly diverse areas as Britain, the M...

Studies of less familiar birds: 137. Woodchat Shrike

01 November 1965 Comments Main paper Laniussenatorhas a rather limited distribu tion in western Europe, north-west Africa, Asia Minor and the Near East. Its strongholds in Europe are Iberia, France, Italy, the Mediter ranean islands and some parts of the western Balkans down to northern Gree...

Yellow Warbler on Bardsey Island: a bird new to Great Britain and Ireland

01 November 1965 Comments Main paper of 29th August 1964, at approximately 15.30 hours GMT, my newly arrived assistant H. Miles was conveying his belongings from the boathouse to the observatory on Bardsey Island, Caernarvonshire. Halfway between the boathouse and Ty Pellaf, bis attention wa...

Observations on the breeding biology of the Razorbill

01 November 1965 Comments Main paper T H E B R E E D I N G B I O L O G Y of the Razorbill Alca torda has been little studied. Even the incubation and fledging periods were only in accurately known until the work of Keighley and Lockley (1947 and 1948). However, Paludan (1947) gave a good gen...

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