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01 September 1958 Comments Notes Little Shearwater in Cheshire.--On ioth May 1958 a living bird was picked up by school-children in a field near Stockport, Cheshire, and eventually came into the hands of one of us (C.G.B.) from Inspector Brooks of the R . S . P . C . A . The bird was not...

Obituary: William Stanley Cowin (1907-1958)

01 September 1958 Comments Obituaries H i s MANY FRIENDS and correspondents throughout the United Kingdom will learn with regret of the sudden death of W . S. (Will) Cowin, of Douglas, Isle of Man, on 29th June 1958, a t the early a g e of fifty. Born in Douglas on 17th August 1907, Will Cowi...

Migrant land-birds in the Western Approaches

01 September 1958 Comments Main paper the last three weeks of October, the first-named author served with the scientific staff of " W e a t h e r Observer", a weather-ship of the Marine Branch, Meteorological Office (Air Ministry), at station " K i l o " in latitude 45Â°N. and longitude i 6...

An Ecological sketch of the Camargue

01 September 1958 Comments Main paper T H E RHONE, creator of the Camargue, is born among glaciers and continues as a mountain torrent in its upper reaches, yet long before it touches the Camargue it becomes merely a large gentlyflowing river. Lyons, 310 kilometres from its mouth, is only 169...

Recent reports and news

01 September 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Reviews

01 September 1958 Comments Reviews By N . TINBERGEN. {Country Life, London, 1958). 280 p a g e s ; illustrated. 35s. IN HIS PREFACE, D r . Tinbergen writes that he long hesitated about writing this semi-autobiographical book, and repeatedly in the main text he seems to find it necessary t...

Reviews

01 November 1947 Comments Reviews British Game. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. (The New Naturalist series, Collins, London, 1946). Price 16s. This is the first of the New Naturalist series to be concerned primarily with birds. I t is not exclusively so concerned because mammals are also inclu...

Notes

01 November 1947 Comments Notes ON a fine morning in April, 1946, a number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula), Song-Thrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) and Starlings (Siurnus v. vulgaris) were watched while feeding on a large lawn of King's College, Cambridge. The Starlings spent most of the...

The Colour-Phases of the Fulmar

01 November 1947 Comments Main paper THE Handbook (Vol-, iv, p. 79) contains a statement of mine on the distribution of the colour phases of the Fulmar (Fulmarus g. glatialis) which is erroneous. It runs ;--"proportions of dark birds are-- Brit. Is. up to 2 per cent., except Shetland, where...

Studies of some species Rarely Photographed. XI. The Rufous, Sardinian and Olivaceous Warblers

01 November 1947 Comments Main paper (Plates 32-39)THE unique photographs of these three warblers were taken at Habbaniya on the Euphrates in Iraq during the war by Mr. A. Stubbs, who has contributed some useful notes on all three species as observed in that locality. All three are on the Br...

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Obituary: William Stanley Cowin (1907-1958)

Migrant land-birds in the Western Approaches

An Ecological sketch of the Camargue

Recent reports and news

Reviews

Reviews

Notes

The Colour-Phases of the Fulmar

Studies of some species Rarely Photographed. XI. The Rufous, Sardinian and Olivaceous Warblers

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