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01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Letter

01 December 1942 Comments Letters SIRS,--The interesting and unusual behavtour of a Moorhen (Galhnula ch, chloropus) continually remaining in a semi-submerged position (antea, Vol. xxxvi, p. 57) whilst swimming about, and giving the impression of " not being able to come up " is almost ce...

Notes

01 December 1942 Comments Notes a short visit to Lundy in September, 1942, we identified a Lapland Bunting {Cakarius lapponicus) on the high barren area at the north end of the island on September ioth. The species has not previously been met with on Lundy, nor in the county of Devon. ...

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper IN England a hundred years ago the Black Redstart (Phcenicurus o. gibraltariensis) was only a rare and occasional visitor, but by 1871 Newton in Yarrell was able to give it as a regulÃ¤r winter visitor to south-west England and the Isle of Wight, less r...

Comparative Prices of Game and Wildfowl in 1512, 1757, 1807, 1922, 1941 and 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper THE six comparative 'price-lists printed at the end of this article are mainly of ornithological interest in so far as they show the decline in numbers of certain species of British Birds : at the same time it must be pointed out that the terminology empl...

Reviews

01 November 1942 Comments Reviews An Ornithologist's Field Note Book. By Sir Hugh Gladstone. 6th Edition revised. (Truslove & Hanson). 6d. T H I S booklet (5 x 3 ins.) contains a list of the English names of all the regulÃ¤r breeding British birds, winter visitors and passage-migrants. ...

Notes

01 November 1942 Comments Notes SOMETIME ago my attention was attracted by the curious behaviour of a pair of Carrion-Crows (Corvus c. corone). They were on a house in one of the new housing estates near London, and were engaged in Walking or half-running up and down the sloping roof w...

How a Tree-Creeper Built its Nest

01 November 1942 Comments Main paper FOR several years I have watched Tree-Creepers (Certhia f. britannica) deciding on a nesting site and often wondered why one of two eligible sites was ultimately selected. I have noticed that a few twigs are often placed in both sites and that the nest ta...

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Letters

Looking back

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

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Notes

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

Comparative Prices of Game and Wildfowl in 1512, 1757, 1807, 1922, 1941 and 1942

Reviews

Notes

How a Tree-Creeper Built its Nest

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