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A statistical examination of the Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access of the great flood of rarities from east Sussex and west Kent during the first two decades of this century, from the internal evidence presented by the statistical aspects of the records themselves. The consequences of various hypotheses which assume t...

Editorial: Setting the record straight

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access D E P A R T I N G F R O M our normal pattern, we are devoting the whole of this much enlarged issue of British Birds to a single main subject, known already to some, and soon to be familiar to many, as the case of the Hastings Rarities. Half a century ...

The Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access CONTENTS Introduction Definition of the Hastings Rarities Peculiarities of the pattern Comparison with current experience Observers and collectors Prices and collections Possibilities of cool deception Publication and correspondenceO F T H E 520 F O E ...

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Notes

01 January 1932 Comments Notes SOME Waxwings (Bombycilla ^arrulus) have reached Norfolk during the last few weeks. On November 3rd, 1931, one was picked up alive at Kelling, under telegraph wires, by the local police constable, but it died and was unfortunately taken by a cat. Some wi...

The birds of Lundy Island from 1922 to 1931, with special reference to Numerical Fluctuation

01 January 1932 Comments Main paper IN early June, 1930, V, C. Wynne-Edwards, J, H. Comyns and the writer visited Lundy, an island of rather over a thousand acres, lying twelve miles out in the Bristol Channel. Our primary objective was to take a bird census of the whole island,* but we wer...

On the breeding of the Storm-Petrel, with special reference to its incubation and fledging-periods

01 January 1932 Comments Main paper (Plate 4.) T H E readiness with which the Storm-Petrel [Hydrobates pelagicus) deserts its egg when its nest is opened has made it difficult to obtain data relating to the incubation- and fledging-periods. In 1930 a series of nests under observation on Sko...

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A statistical examination of the Hastings Rarities

Editorial: Setting the record straight

The Hastings Rarities

Article PDF - V26_N08_P253-259_N035.pdf

Article PDF - V26_N08_P260-260_RV037.pdf

Article PDF - V26_N08_P238-245_A033.pdf

Article PDF - V26_N08_P246-252_A034.pdf

Notes

The birds of Lundy Island from 1922 to 1931, with special reference to Numerical Fluctuation

On the breeding of the Storm-Petrel, with special reference to its incubation and fledging-periods

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