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01 July 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--At a meeting held in Aberdaron on March 7th, 1953, a committee was formed to establish a permanent observatory on the island of Bardsey. The position of the Island, at the very tip of the Lleyn Peninsula, makes it an ideal site for the study of bir...

Notice and Requests for Information

01 July 1953 Comments Editorials Ornithological Congress, presided over by Sir Landsborough Thomson, London, will be held in Basle, Switzerland, from May 29th to June 5th, 1954. During the week of the Congress, 5 days will be devoted to meetings and 2 to excursions. Before and after the ...

Reviews

01 July 1953 Comments Reviews Yorkshire Birds. By Ralph Chislett. (A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., 1953). 25s. Mr. Chislett lists among his qualifications for this work a professional training as a chartered accountant, and although he notes sadly that the application to bird records of effect...

Notes

01 July 1953 Comments Notes Birds with abnormal bills.--With reference to previous notes on this subject (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 60, 349-50; vol. xlv, p. 402), we have received several more records of bill deformities and the following are worth quoting :OYSTERCATCHER (Hcetnatopus os...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. L. Little Egret

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 36-41) LITTLE EGRETS (Egretta garzetta) had been recorded in the British Isles only on some twelve occasions before 1952 when, however (see p p . 255-258), the species w a s observed in four counties-- Cornwall (March 2nd-i7th), Norfolk (May 7 t h...

The migrations of the Lesser Black-backed Gull

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper T H E following- report covers the summer extension of an Enquiry into the status of the Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) which was opened in November, 1949. Owing- to the promising response to the announcement of this enquiry by the British Trust ...

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper FOUR previous papers have appeared in British Birds giving the results of field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit (Parus palustris), based on a study of colour-ringed and some unringed individuals in a 50-acre tract of W e s t Wood, Bagley, N. ...

Reviews

01 July 1939 Comments Reviews Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, Vol. X X I , Part I. T H I S contains a very well deserved tribute to Mr. Charles Oldham, signed by a number of naturalist friends and addressed to him on the occasion of his sevent...

Notes

01 July 1939 Comments Notes I THINK it will be of interest to record a case of bigamy in Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus), which I had under observation in England during the summer of 1938. It is well known that this species has a tendency to nest in small colonies, but I do no...

On the Courtship-display of the Goldeneye

01 July 1939 Comments Main paper THE courtship-display of the Goldeneye (Bucephala c. clangula) is perhaps more spectacular than that of any other duck and therefore has attracted the attention of several naturalists who have described it at considerable length. Among them I may mention ...

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Letters

Notice and Requests for Information

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. L. Little Egret

The migrations of the Lesser Black-backed Gull

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

Reviews

Notes

On the Courtship-display of the Goldeneye

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