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01 February 1961 Comments Reviews Vara Faglar i Norden (Our Birds in the North). Second edition edited by Kai Curry-LindaM (Swedish text). Bokforlaget Natur och Cultur, Stockholm, 1959 and i960. Volumes I and II, 1022 pages; coloured and black-and-white plates, and maps, (Four volumes: Sw...

Notes

01 February 1961 Comments Notes Ring-necked Duck in Co. Armagh.--A male Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) stayed on the lake in the Public Park, Lurgan, Co. Armagh, from 20th March till 1st May i960 and was seen on many occasions by various observers. It then disappeared, but returned ...

Some photographic studies of the Nightjar

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper I N G E N E R A L W E TRY to publish photographs for their biological interest or because they illustrate points of identification, rather than for their aesthetic value. This aim is always borne in mind in the selection and presentation of the photograph...

An interpretation of variation in the dark-headed forms of the Yellow Wagtail

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper variation to be seen in the Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava). T h e chief mistake made by most investigators has been that of splitting the group into too many forms on the basis of too few specimens, the most flagrant example of this being in the monogra...

The " Lesser Scaup " problem

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper observations in Britain of ducks that were thought to be Lesser Scaups (Aythya affinis), a North American species not recorded in Europe. This note is based on a detailed examination of one of these --that first seen at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, in Dec...

Letters

01 February 1961 Comments Letters The Len Howard Appeal Sirs--All readers of Miss Len Howard's books Birds as Individuals and Living with Birds have been distressed to learn that her life's work is threatened by building on the land next to her garden sanctuary. For twenty-one years Miss ...

Reviews

01 April 1957 Comments Reviews By LEONARD W . W I N G . (Ronald Press Company, New York, 1956). 539 pages, 222 textfigures and numerous tables. Price $6.75. THERE is g r e a t need at the present time for a general biology of birds covering the whole field, and the present book fills ...

Notes

01 April 1957 Comments Notes of Boelus, Nebraska, informs me that he wing-tipped a young female White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) whilst shooting on the North Platte river in the autumn of 1903 or 1904--he is not sure which---and took the bird back to his farm. H e goes on to say...

Neottiophilum Praeustum in birds' nests

01 April 1957 Comments Main paper Diptera with n o close relatives, being" the only member of the family Neottiophilidae. T h e larvae are ectoparasites of nestling birds and live in the lining of the nest, periodically attaching themselves to the nestlings and sucking blood. They are thu...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXX. Kite

01 April 1957 Comments Main paper THE K I T E or Red Kite (Milvus milvus) has a much more restricted rÃÂ¤nge than its close relative, the Black Kite (M. migrans), of which we published photographs just a year ago (antea, vol. xlix, plates 5-7, pp. 140-141). It is usually, too, a much...

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Reviews

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Some photographic studies of the Nightjar

An interpretation of variation in the dark-headed forms of the Yellow Wagtail

The " Lesser Scaup " problem

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Neottiophilum Praeustum in birds' nests

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXX. Kite

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