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Crossbills in Sweden in 1953

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Obituary: Stuart Smith, D.Sc, Ph.D. (1906-1963)

01 October 1955 Comments Obituaries T H E U N T I M E L Y D E A T H of Dr. Stuart Smith on j t h August, 1963 as a result of unexpected complications following an operation which it had been anticipated would be a comparatively minor one, has deprived British ornithology of one of its most ...

Recent reports

01 October 1955 Comments News and comment [These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] This summary is mainly concerned with the period from 21st July to 10th September. Highlights included a heavy passage of northern waders, a striking movement of Black Terns, the now annual ...

News and comment

01 October 1955 Comments News and comment Annual Conference.--The Annual Conference of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club will be held at the Hotel Dunblane (formerly Dunblane Hydro Hotel), Perthshire, from 25 th to 27th October. Guest speakers will be Dr. Kai CurryLindahl, from Stockholm, on 'Bi...

Request for information

01 October 1955 Comments Editorials Status and distribution of the Chough.--There ate indications that the Chough {Pyrrbocorax pyrrhocorax) has been increasing during the last decade in Wales and the Isle of Man, but in the absence of any systematic survey there is no definite evidence. The...

Letters

01 May 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. N. D. Pullen, Mr. H. G. Hurrell and Miss N. C. Hicks (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300 and 360) have drawn attention t o an interesting problem of behaviour. I have observed t h e " digging " in the bottom of the nest, as described by the abov...

Notes

01 May 1946 Comments Notes DURING a continuation of observations on migration in the Trent Valley near Nottingham in 1945, the following species were noted, most of the records being the first for the county and therefore worthy of-record. ICTERINE WARBLER (Hippolais icterina),--A...

Some Remarks on Sex behaviour of Doves

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper The Handbook of British Birds' (Vol. v, p. 280) states on the authority of O. and M. Heinroth that the male Rock-Dove [Columba livid) feeds the female before coition. I think one may safely assume that the pairing ceremonials of the wild and domesticated ...

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. IV. The Marsh-Warbler

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 17-19). THE scarce and local Marsh-Warbler (Acrocephalus palustris) is only known to breed regularly in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Sussex and Kent. In some other counties, such as Oxfordshire, it appears to do so with fair...

Notes on the Breeding Biology of the Crested Lark

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the breeding biology of the Asiatic race of the Crested Lark (Galerida cristata magna) were made near Gaza in southern Palestine in the months of May to July, 1944. Crested Larks were common residents on the dry, rolling down...

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