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01 February 1948 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t seems a n opportune moment for making a plea t h a t t h e scope of the British Trust Ringing Scheme should be widened by making rings available for use outside t h e British Islands. While we fully appreciate the organizational a n d sup...

Reviews

01 February 1948 Comments Reviews Aristocrats'' of the Air. By Captain C. W. R. Knight. (Williams and Norgate, London, 1946). 30s. od. The first edition of this eminently readable book was first published in 1935, but has been out of print for nearly twenty years. This, the second edition...

Notes

01 February 1948 Comments Notes DURING the years 1946 and 1947 I have noticed several species singing outside what appears to be their normal song-period as defined in The Handbook charts. Some of these variations are considerable, others less so. The particulars are as follows :-- NUT...

Studies of some rarely photographed: XIII. The Scottish Crossbill

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper Photographed by ERIC HOSKING. (Plates 9-14). We regard the title of this series as covering well-marked subspecies as well as species in the strict sense, and on this interpretation the Scottish Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra scotica) is certainly entitled...

Black Redstarts on Pett level, East Sussex

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper [The observations now published by Mr. Cooke, whose discovery of Black Terns breeding on Pett Level during the war {antea, Vol. xxxix, p. 71) will be recalled by readers, are of great interest in carrying the history of the breeding of the Black Redstart...

The Little Ringed Plover in the London area in 1947

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper IN 1947 Little Ringed Plovers (Charadrius dubius curonicus) bred in the London Area for the fourth year in succession, and there was a remarkable increase in numbers. Eight nests were found and four other broods seen. Because of the possibility that at le...

Report on the immigration of Waxwings, winter, 1947-7

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper --One in Guernsey, late December or early J a n u a r y (per B . K. Holmes). CORNWALL.--Several in Scilly, Nov. 14th to Dec. 9th (Major A. A. Dorrien Smith in Rep. Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservn. Soc.)*. SOMERSET.--One near Bath, Feb. 5th and two, Fe...

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01 February 1945 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference t o t h e letter from t h e Hon. G. Charteris (antea, p. 120), I can record three definite instances of Chaffinches having second broods. 1. I n 1938 a pair ringed b y me with coloured rings for identification nested in a holly just ...

Reviews

01 February 1945 Comments Reviews The Breeding Distribution, History and Population of the North Atlantic Gannet (Sola bassana). By James Fisher and H. G. Vevcrs. Part I.--A History of the G a n n e t s Colonies, and t h e Census in 1939. Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. xii, pp. 173-213, ...

Notes

01 February 1945 Comments Notes I HAVE recently been particularly interested in the behaviour of Marsh- and Coal-Tits, which together with larger numbers of Blue and Great Tits, have visited the garden here at Llanymynech during about the first three weeks of October, 1944. The garden,...

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Studies of some rarely photographed: XIII. The Scottish Crossbill

Black Redstarts on Pett level, East Sussex

The Little Ringed Plover in the London area in 1947

Report on the immigration of Waxwings, winter, 1947-7

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Reviews

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