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01 March 1933 Comments Reviews Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna. Von Dr. Ernst Hartert. Erg&nzungsband in Gemeinschaft mil Dr. Friedrich Steinbacher bearbeitet. Heft. I. (Berlin : Friedlander & Sohn.) T H I S is the first part of a supplement, which will bring up to date from 1922 Dr. Ha...

Notes

01 March 1933 Comments Notes IN an article on the Marsh- and Willow-Tits (antea, Vol. XXIV., p. 319), Mr. J. Walpole Bond stated that he had never seen or heard of a nest of a Marsh-Tit (Parus palustris dresseri) in masonry. It may, therefore, be of interest to record that I found s...

Obituary: Thomas Alfred Coward 1867-1933

01 March 1933 Comments Obituaries THOMAS ALFRED COWARD was born in Bowdon, a Cheshire suburb of Manchester, in January, 1867. There he spent his life, and there on January 29th he died with tragic suddenness from heart failure. Not only was he one of the best field naturalists in the nor...

The "British Birds" Marking Scheme. Progress for 1932

01 March 1933 Comments Main paper FOR the fifth year in succession I have the pleasure to record a larger number of birds ringed under our scheme than in any previous year. It is also satisfactory to note that the increase in 1932 over 1931 is largely in trapped birds, which have risen to...

Birds of Inner London

01 March 1933 Comments Main paper THE following may be added to the list published in this magazine in 1929 (Vol. XXII., pp. 222-244) and the subsequent additions (Vol. XXIII., p. 266, and Vol. XXIV., P- 323)SCANDINAVIAN LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL {Larus f,fuscus).--- Mr. L. Parmenter infor...

The Great Crested Grebe Enquiry (1931) Scotland

01 March 1933 Comments Main paper IN the Great Crested Grebe Enquiry (1931) we were unable to obtain such detailed information for Scotland as for the rest of Great Britain, and therefore in the main report on the Enquiry (antea, pp. 90-92) only a summary of the results was given. In gene...

Letters

01 February 1933 Comments Letters SIRS,---1 am in possession of letters relating to the birds of the following districts and if application is made to me a t the address below I am prepared to post them to those who may be sufficiently interested. Bedfordshire, Berks., Bucks., Cornwall, C...

Reviews

01 February 1933 Comments Reviews A History of the Birds of Suffolk. By Claud B. Ticehurst, (Gurney & Jackson). Illustrated. 24s. net. As might be expected, this book, coming from the pen of so accomplished an ornithologist as Dr. C. B. Ticehurst, will rank among the very best of county a...

Notes

01 February 1933 Comments Notes ON May ist, 1932, at Leathcrcote Point, St. Margarets-atCliffe, 1 came across a bird which 1 identified as an Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris). It remained for some considerable time in the same area around some small low-lying bushes on the cliff edg...

Notes on the Tree-Sparrow, 1932

01 February 1933 Comments Main paper Return to the Nesting Trees.--The first were noticed on March 9th ; by March 18th the birds had returned in force, and about twenty together were seen in one of the trees. These dates confirm the records of other years very closely. Nest-building.--Four b...

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Obituary: Thomas Alfred Coward 1867-1933

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Birds of Inner London

The Great Crested Grebe Enquiry (1931) Scotland

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Notes on the Tree-Sparrow, 1932

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