Letters

01 September 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to t h e article on " The Breeding-habits of t h e Dartford Warbler," and t o t h e statement on page 218, I have never seen a Dartford Warbler's nest in England, a n d know nothing of their habits in this country. I n t h e...
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Reviews

01 September 1963 Comments Reviews British Diving Ducks. By J. G. Millais, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Vol. II. Seventeen coloured and twenty-five uneoloured plates. Longmans. In two volumes, £12 12s. net. IN our last volume (pp. 365-70) we gave an extended notice of the fisst part of Mr. Mill...
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Notes

01 September 1963 Comments Notes A YOUNG drake Gadwall {Anas strepera) was shot on J a n u a r y 14th, 1913, a t Stretton. I saw t w o K n o t s (Canutus canutus) on October 12th, 1913, a t Bellfields Reservoir. I watched t h e m for some time through powerful glasses, a n d when one fle...
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Reviews

01 May 1956 Comments Reviews By L. S. V. and U . M. VENABLES. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1955). 391 p a g e s ; 8 photographic plates; 3 maps. 30s. T H E islands of Shetland, meeting-place of northern and southern elements in our fauna, and maritime outpost of a region where strik...
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Notes

01 May 1956 Comments Notes amount of time was spent in 1955, and to a lesser extent in 1954, in an attempt to plot the breeding distribution of Red-backed Shrikes (Lanius collurio) in parts of the New Forest, Hampshire. It is frequently cited in the literature that this bird is bot...
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