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01 January 1956 Comments Reviews By D . A. BANNERMAN and G. E. LODGE. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1955). V O L . I V . 259 p a g e s ; 29 plates. 45s. T H E present volume is a worthy successor to the preceding ones, but again whets the appetite for those which are to come. It covers t...

Notes

01 January 1956 Comments Notes Harlequin Duck in Shetland.--While watching- waders at half tide at the Pool of Virkie, south Shetland, on the afternoon of 16th October 1955, we noticed a small dark duck which we believed was a female or first-winter Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrio...

Nest-Sanitation and Fledging of the Green Woodpecker

01 January 1956 Comments Main paper THERE is considerable conflict in the accounts of nest-sanitation by the Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis). Owen (1921) w r i t e s : " F r o m . n e s t s I have opened from time to time after the young have flown, it seems that generally the nest is kept...

A Raven Roost in Devon

01 January 1956 Comments Main paper A T least one large roost of Ravens (Corvus corax) has been reported in Scotland and another in W a l e s . In W . Cornwall there was one in 1945 and 1946 near an abnormally liberal food supply. In October the number of Ravens using this roost was between...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXIX. Great Grey Owl

01 January 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 1-3) Though the Great Grey, or Lapland, O w l (Strix nebulosa) h a s never been recorded in Britain, we feel more than justified in publishing these magnificent photographs which we have received through Mr. Moberg's friend and companion, Kapten S...

The Autumn 1953 Invasion of Lapland Buntings and its Source

01 January 1956 Comments Main paper THERE were a number of remarkable features about the autumn migration of 1953, and not the least of these was the phenomenal invasion of Britain by Lapland Buntings (Calcarius lapponicus), which occupied at least a month from 3rd September. This species h...

Editorial

01 January 1956 Comments Editorials SCIENTIFIC A N D ENGLISH NAMES THREE years have gone by since the British Ornithologists' Union's Check-List of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland was published. Now that some of the dust has settled it is possible to look afresh at the main problems ...

Letters

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...

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Notes

Nest-Sanitation and Fledging of the Green Woodpecker

A Raven Roost in Devon

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXIX. Great Grey Owl

The Autumn 1953 Invasion of Lapland Buntings and its Source

Editorial

Letters

Reviews

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