Letters

01 February 1970 Comments Letters The Hastings Rarities I was interested in the recent revival of the controversy concerning the Hastings Rarities {Brit. Birds, 62: 364381). In 1939 a friend of mine in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company succeeded in getting for me some specimens of the geese t...
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Reviews

01 February 1970 Comments Reviews Book of British Birds. Edited by R. S. R. Fitter. Drive Publications for the Reader's Digest Association and the Automobile Association, London, 1969. 472 pages, numerous illustrations (mostly in colour), diagrams and maps. 75 s. The combined publishing v...
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Notes

01 February 1970 Comments Notes New species of subcutaneous mite in Shags and Cormorants In the course of post-mortem examinations of Shags Pbalacrocorax aristotelis and Cormorants P. carbo from the Fame Islands, Northumberland, we found many carcasses infested with a subcutaneous mite ...
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The birds of Foulness

01 February 1970 Comments Main paper Plates 8-10 Foulness and the Maplin Sands (fig. 1) are essentially a vast triangle of sand, mud, saltings and grassland, roughly eight miles across the base and ten miles long, on the Essex coast between the River Crouch and the River Thames. Foulness, Ne...
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Recent reports

01 February 1970 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary is concerned mainly with the spring passage and arrivals of summer visitors during March 1970 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. Most of the vagrants, an...
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News & Comments

01 February 1970 Comments News and comment The search for avian influenza Growing evidence suggests that the new strains of Influenza A, which affects mankind and various domestic animals at intervals ·with serious results, may originate among wild birds. The World Health Organisation has reque...
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Recent reports

01 April 1968 Comments News and comment Several Red-necked Grebes Podiceps ruficollis were seen inland in London, Essex, Berkshire and Huntingdon in January-February and some notable concentrations off Northumberland included peaks of 43 at Budle on 28th January and 23 at Bamburgh on 17th-! 8th...
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News and comments

01 April 1968 Comments News and comment Proposed Seychelle Islands reserve.--The recent threats to Aldabra called forth united protests from many nations, and it is pleasant now to find international co-operation over another Indian Ocean project. For the past seven years the International C...
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