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01 September 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--I read with great interest the paper by Desmond Morris (antea, pp. 33-49) and the subsequent letter by A. J. Bruce (antea, p. 215) in which this subject is discussed. Bruce's theory, that a thrush (Turdus sp.) cannot afford to use its feet owing to...

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01 September 1954 Comments Reviews Report on Somerset Birds, 1952: 39ft Report of the Ornithological Section of the Somersetshire Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. Obtainable from G. H. E. Young, Bank House, Martock, Somerset. 5s. Ornithological Notes, Bristol District, 1952. Edited by H. H. Davis...

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01 September 1954 Comments Reviews Birds as Animals, i. A History of Birds. By James Fisher (Hutchinson's University Library, London, 1954). 8s. 6d. THIS book is based on the author's previously published Birds as- Animals (Heinemann, 1939), but is a completely revised and rewritten versio...

Notes

01 September 1954 Comments Notes to be a female, was seen on several occasions between November 6th, 1953, and January 2nd, 1954, by Mr. B. Winchester at the Layer Breton end of Abberton Reservoir, Essex. On December .21st it was also seen by Messrs. P . J. Fenning and R. King. Close vie...

Parasitism of a Herring Gull by the duck leech

01 September 1954 Comments Main paper O N February 13th, 1954, an adult Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) was found at the edge of Blagdon lake, north Somerset, unable to fly and gaping continuously. It was kept in captivity, but died the following day after being forcibly fed with sardine. A d...

Obituary: Francis Linley Blathwavt (1875-1953), Norman Joy (1874-1953).

01 September 1954 Comments Obituaries BLATHWAYT, who died in his 78th year a t Dyrham, Gloucestershire, on June 30th, 1953, w a s a country parson of sterling qualities and a distinguished English naturalist, as close as possible to t h e Gilbert W h i t e tradition in a world vastly differe...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds. LIX. Collared Flycatcher

01 September 1954 Comments Main paper (Plate 51). T H E male Collared Flycatcher (Muscicapa albicollis) in breeding plumage, as a comparison between plates 50 and 51 will help t o show, is identical in shape and size and very similar in colouring to the male Pied Flycatcher (M. hypolenca), di...

Paddyfield Warbler at Fair Isle

01 September 1954 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory). A PADDYFIELD WARBLER (Acrocephalus agricola) was watched and subsequently trapped at Fair Isle on the morning- of September 16th, 1953. It constitutes the second record of this eastern species in the British Isles, the previo...

Balearic Shearwaters off the Dorset Coast in 1953

01 September 1954 Comments Main paper O N August 20th, 1953, the Rev. G. W . H . Moule saw two small shearwaters flying separately ca. S.S.E. low over the sea close in under the W e s t Cliff, Portland Bill, Dorset. Their upper-parts appeared " a rich dark b r o w n " in colour, under-parts n...

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01 February 1941 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t has long been known t h a t there is a remarkable relation between t h e Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) and the common field-vole (Microtus agrestis). The common vole at apparently regular intervals increases in numbers in different loca...

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Parasitism of a Herring Gull by the duck leech

Obituary: Francis Linley Blathwavt (1875-1953), Norman Joy (1874-1953).

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds. LIX. Collared Flycatcher

Paddyfield Warbler at Fair Isle

Balearic Shearwaters off the Dorset Coast in 1953

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