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01 September 1950 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n their paper on this subject in British Birds, vol. xlii, p. 325, David and Elizabeth Lack write t h a t Dr. D. A. Bannerman in his note on Chaffinch Migration in .British Birds, vol. xxxvii, p . 177, supposed t h a t the birds he saw in N...

Reviews

01 September 1950 Comments Reviews Report of the Natural History Section of the Wiltshire Archcsological &· Natural History Society, 1947 and 1948. Some of the interesting records in these two carefully compiled reports have already appeared in British Birds : a Roller reported (antea, v...

Notes

01 September 1950 Comments Notes WITH regard to the swimming of small passerines (antea, vol. xl, pp. 179, vol. xlii, p. 183, vol. xliii, p. 121), the following incidents may be of interest. At the Eye Brook Reservoir, Leicestershire, a colony of Tree-Sparrows (Passer montanus) uses the...

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

01 September 1950 Comments Main paper The recoveries of Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus), Common Gull (Larus canus), and Teal (Anas crecca) from Dutch decoys, are too numerous to be included. To the list of Ringing Stations already published*, one not previou...

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain in 1949

01 September 1950 Comments Main paper THE Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) has now firmly established itself as a summer resident in England. In 1949 at least twenty-seven pairs spent the summer at fifteen localities in eight counties ; eighteen pairs are known to have bred and at lea...

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01 February 1941 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t has long been known t h a t there is a remarkable relation between t h e Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) and the common field-vole (Microtus agrestis). The common vole at apparently regular intervals increases in numbers in different loca...

Review

01 February 1941 Comments Reviews Ritchie (1940), " An analysis of t h e influence of weather upon a migratory movement of birds," Proc, Roy, Soc, Edin., Vol. 60, P- 299.analysis of t h e d a t a relating t o t h e 1921 invasion of t h e Waxwing (Bombycitta garrulus) and t h e associated...

Review

01 February 1941 Comments Reviews Courtship and Display among Birds. By C, R. Stonor. (Country Life, Ltd.) With 57 plates from photographs, 8s. 6d. net. No aspect of bird behaviour is more fascinating, more biologically important or offers a more promising field for study than that of dis...

Notes

01 February 1941 Comments Notes THESE notes cover the periods between May and September, 1939, and May to July, 1940, and are in continuation of those published in Vol. XXXII, pp. 366-8. BRITISH GOLDFINCH (Carduelisc. britannica).--It is pleasing to be able to record the continued incr...

Obituary: Henry Eliot Howard. An Appreciation

01 February 1941 Comments Obituaries died on December 26th, 1940, to the very great loss of ornithological science and the poignant regret of his many friends. Born in 1873 the son of Mr. H. Howard of Stone House, Kidderminster, he was educated at Eton and at Mason's College, Birmingham. He ...

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