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01 September 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was generally a cold, wet month, with an interesting period between 8th and i ith as a depression moved east across Britain bringing rain and low cloud with east and north-east winds. Many...

News and comment

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment Grants for nature conservation The Nature Conservancy Council announced on i ith August that it had just awarded 90 grants, totalling £50,000, to encourage nature conservation by voluntary bodies, local authorities and private individuals. The large...

Letters

01 July 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--Records of Scaup (Aythya marila) appearing inland in Yorkshire this winter (1953-54) have been unusually numerous and I should be interested to know if these occurrences have been peculiar to Yorkshire only or whether this species has been recorded...

Request for information

01 July 1954 Comments Editorials Large passage of Black Terns.--In 1946, 1948, 1949 and 1950 interesting spring passages of Black Terns (Chlidonias niger) were noted in the British Isles, and the records were summarized and discussed in British Birds (antea, vol. xl, pp. 24-26, 93 and 37...

Reviews

01 July 1954 Comments Reviews The Birds of Kent. By James M. Harrison. (Witherby, London, 1953). 2 vols. ^J8.8.o. IN addition to his own observations and those of numerous correspondents, Dr. Harrison includes practically everything that has been published relating to Kentish birds. T...

Notes

01 July 1954 Comments Notes Baginton near Coventry on January i 5 t h - i 7 t h , 1953, Mr. G. H . Forster and I observed a drake Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca carolinensis) a m o n g the large flock of common Teal (A. c. crecca) that regularly winter there. The bird was watched fo...

Protocalliphora in birds nests

01 July 1954 Comments Main paper DIPTEROUS flies of the genus Protocalliphora belong- to the Calliphoridae, a family in which most species are carrion-feeders. In this genus the larvae are ecto-parasites of nestling birds. The adult flies lay eggs in birds' nests and when the larvae hatc...

The Fair Isle apparatus for collecting bird ecto-parasites

01 July 1954 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory.) (Plate 44). IT is obvious that a bird observatory or private ringing station, which handles and examines large numbers of live birds of different species and ecology, has unique opportunities for conducting both qualitative a...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds. LVIII. Lapland Bunting

01 July 1954 Comments Main paper (Plates 37-40). T H E Lapland Bunting- (Calcarius lapponicus) breeds in the Norwegian highlands, in N . Sweden, Finland and N . Russia, through the Arctic regions of Siberia and America to Greenland. Out of the breeding-season the species presents somethi...

Experiments with an artificial nestling

01 July 1954 Comments Main paper Grey Institute, Oxford.) (Plates 41-43). IN June, 1951, attempts were made to construct an artificial nestling- which could be used to obtain samples of food brought to the young of birds which nest in boxes. Previous experiments have been made by the Rus...

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