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Migration at the Smith's Knoll light-vessel, autumn 1953

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Reviews

01 October 1956 Comments Reviews LOCAL REPORT REVIEWS YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION: ORNITHOLOGICAL R E P O R T , for 1953 (26 pages), and 1954 (27 pages). E d i t o r : R. Chislett, Brookside, Masham, N r . Ripon. Price 2s. each. T H E very full and detailed systematic lists of 22 pages ...

Gulls Feeding on Grain

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the third week in August 1955, gulls frequented a field overlooking the Dale Estuary in St. Ishmael's, Pembrokeshire. They spent the whole day there, and fully three acres where they assembled were littered with patches of corn husks, each patch be...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXIV. Citril Finch

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 53-56) T H E Citril Finch (Carduelis citrinella) is restricted as a breeding bird to the mountain ranges of southern E u r o p e -- N . E . and S.E. Spain (chiefly.Pyrenees, Sierra de Guadarrama and Sierra Nevada), S. France (Massif Central, Pyren...

Notes on Selected Migrants at Cap Gris Nez, North France, In 1955

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the course of 1955 the writer visited Cap Gris Nez, Pas de Calais, on the north coast of France, to examine the nature of the migration which occurs on this important headland. Altogether three visits were made, the first, during 8 t h - n t h Apri...

Records of the Development of Original and Unusual Feeding Methods by Wild Passerine Birds

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper THERE is a widespread tendency among present-day students of animal behaviour to concentrate attention on the Fixed Action Patterns or "Instinctive A c t s " as the most striking and important feature of animal behaviour. And indeed it is in general true ...

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...

Seventeenth-Century "Poultry"

01 May 1941 Comments Main paper has recently come to my notice a 26-page pamphlet by Adam Shewring, entitled The Plain-dealing Poulterer, and published in London in 1699. The author in his preface states that he has " thought it good after my many years experience, and knowledge gotten ...

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