Reviews

01 July 1952
Comments Reviews The Greenshank. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson (Collins, 1951). 15s. In The Handbook's account of the Greenshank it was evident t h a t much of our knowledge of the species was due to Mr. Nethersole-Thompson, but it needed the publication of this book to ...
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Notes

01 July 1952
Comments Notes Long-tailed Tits' unorthodox nesting arrangements.--On April 21st, 1951, the writers found the nest of a Long-tailed Tit (Mgithalos caudatus) in the main fork of an apple tree near Brandon, Suffolk. Such a site' is unusual in East Anglia, and the nest ha...
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Letters

01 April 1951
Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. K. E. L. Simmons's letter (antea, p. 40) on this subject draws attention to reactions in trapped birds intermediate between remaining immobile on the open hand and the extreme, trance-like "death feigning". A further case may be of interest. On...
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Reviews

01 April 1951
Comments Reviews Notes on the Birds of Warwickshire by C. A. Norris. (Cornish Brothers Ltd., Birmingham, 1947). 8s. 6d. THE only previous account of the birds of this county was that published by R. F. Tomes in the Victoria History of Warwickshire in 1904. The present lit...
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Notes

01 April 1951
Comments Notes T H E following notes, made on a colony of Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) in a Cambridge street during March, 1949, have been prompted by Mr. C. M. Ogilvie's article on this subject (antea, pp. 1-5). This rookery, comprising only five pairs, was a new one, pr...
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