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01 November 1950 Comments Letters Bird Life. By Edward A. Armstrong. (Lindsay Drummond, 1949.) 12/6. Field Study Books : The Lapwing. By E. A. R. Ennion. (Methuen, 1949.) 6/-. These two books, though differing in approach and in scope, have the same audience and end in view. They have bot...

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01 November 1950 Comments Notes ON January 4th, 1950, we were standing in the road beside Bolney Grange Ltd., Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, watching about 30-40 WoodPigeons (Columba palumbus) feeding under a tree, when we heard the harsh calls of Carrion Crows (Corvus corone). We looked up, ...

Birds of Inner London, 1949

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper " A List of the Birds of Inner London " was published in 1929 by A. Holte Macpherson {vide antea, vol. xxii, pp. 222-244) and notes on changes in status and of unusual occurrences have appeared annually in British Birds since then. The volume of records r...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVIII. The Calandra Lark, The Short-Toed Lark, The Black-Eared Wheatear

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper (Plates 62-73) W E illustrate this month three South European passerine birds all characteristic of more or less arid country, the two larks especially so, and all photographed during the past summer on the Crau, the remarkable tract of stony, desert-like...

The Northern Golden Plover in South Staffordshire

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the Northern Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria altifrons) in South Staffordshire are of interest in view of the recent note by E. O. Hohn (i), describing the appearance of flocks of these birds in the north of the county on ...

A study of the British Willow-Tit

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper T H I S paper describes some aspects of the British Willow-Tit {Varus atricapillus Meinschmidti) studied by both authors from J a n u a r y to July, 1948, and by the second author with the help of J. A. Gibb from October, 1948, to February, 1950. The only...

Influences causing fluctuation of warbler population in cultivated lands and oak Woods in the Severn Valley

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper IN November, 1935 (antea, vol. xxix, pp. 158-166), I published Notes on Population Problems and Territorial Habits of Chiffchaffs and Willow-Warblers." This was the result of observations over the years 1927 to 1935 in one area oi farm land and another of...

The Sexual Displays of Swallows

01 May 1941 Comments Main paper THE quantitative aspects of the reproduction of the Swallow (Hirundo r. rustica) have been intensively studied in the enquiries of the British Trust for Ornithology (antea, Vol. XXIX, pp. 3-21, Vol. XXX, pp. 98-116) and in many other surveys; but there re...

Nest-Sanitation

01 May 1941 Comments Main paper Faeces carried; no data for first few days ; at a late stage young defaecate from the opening ; if deposited on " doorstep " they are carried; if they fall clear they are left, even if conspicuous (B.H.R., R.G.A., A.H.M.C). [Voided at entrance of nest and...

Notes

01 May 1941 Comments Notes WHEN reading Mr. D. Lack's article on the Chaffinch (antea, p. 216), I was particularly interested in the paragraph on " female song." Just over a year ago (early in March, 1940) I heard at Brent Park, Hendon, a bird singing, which I did not recognize at...

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Birds of Inner London, 1949

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVIII. The Calandra Lark, The Short-Toed Lark, The Black-Eared Wheatear

The Northern Golden Plover in South Staffordshire

A study of the British Willow-Tit

Influences causing fluctuation of warbler population in cultivated lands and oak Woods in the Severn Valley

The Sexual Displays of Swallows

Nest-Sanitation

Notes

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