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01 March 1957 Comments Editorials Bird Observatories : new appointments. --Â· Mr. Kenneth Williamson, who has been Director of the Fair Isle Bird Observatory since it was established in 1948, is leaving the Observatory shortly. To replace Mr. Williamson, the Fair Is!e Bird Observatory- ...

Letters

01 March 1957 Comments Letters T H E BIRDS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE SIRS,--Material is being- collected for a small book on the birds of Gloucestershire by H. H. Davis, C. M. Swaine and myself; we have already made considerable progress in assembling infprmation. W e would be grateful for fu...

Reviews

01 March 1957 Comments Reviews Illustrated by PETER SCOTT (Country Life, London, 1956). Vol. I I . 232 pages, 24 colour plates, 29 maps. £6 6s. IN this second volume Mr. Delacour deals mainly with the dabbling or surface-feeding ducks of the genus Anas, in which are grouped 38 sp...

Notes

01 March 1957 Comments Notes Ortolan Bunting in Middlesex. -- On the morning of 2nd September 1956, I was Walking along the northern bank of the River Brent where it flows into the Brent Reservoir, Middlesex, noting the many migrants which had arrived in the comparative calm after a ...

The pattern of migration in 1955 at the east Coast bird Observatories

01 March 1957 Comments Main paper 22n& March-24th April. DURING the early spring little movement was noted at the East Coast Observatories, the weather being mainly westerly. Fair Isle was not manned, but the following' less common birds were recorded at the other stations (north to s o u...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXIX. Ptarmigan

01 March 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates 17-24) T H E Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) is widely distributed throughout the Palaearctic and Nearctic regions. F o r many years the record of being " t h e northernmost bird ever collected by m a n " was held by a Ptarmigan which was shot in 1876 a...

The breeding of the Storm Petrel: Part I

01 March 1957 Comments Main paper T H E Storm Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) is a breeding bird of the eastern shores of the North Atlantic and the western basin of the Mediterranean. Nearly all the known colonies are on small islands, and probably more than half are in western Britain. Th...

Variations in Chaffinch Song

01 August 1943 Comments Main paper WORKING at first with four birds (A, B, C and D) I made the following observations on the songs of Chaffinches (FringiUa c. gengleri) in a coastal area of south Devon during the spring of 1942. B and C held adjacent territories and their songs were inter...

An Examination of incubation in its wider aspects based on Observation in North Cornwall

01 August 1943 Comments Main paper IT is my purpose here to examine the subject of incubation on a wider scale than in my first paper (antea, pp. 10-16). The present article must be regarded as a second chapter--or indeed a concluding chapter to the first. There I tried to draw the distinc...

Review

01 August 1943 Comments Reviews A Study of the Little Owl (Athene noctua) in New Zealand. By B. J. Marples. Trans. R. Soc. of New Zealand, Vol. 72, Part 3, pages 237-252, December, 1942 . M R . MARPLES undertook, in 1938, to make a thorough investigation of t h e Little Owl from every p...

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