Letters

01 January 1951
Comments Letters SIRS,--An annual report for the County of Suffolk is to be published, beginning with 1950, and I would be grateful if any of your readers who may have records of observations made in Suffolk in this or subsequent years would be good enough to send them to...
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Books Received

01 January 1951
Comments Editorials Flamingo City. By G. K. Yeates. (Country Life, 25/-). Birds and Men. By E M. Nicholson. (Collins, 21/-). The Sarawak Museum Journal (Vol. V, No. 2, September, 1950). ment Printing Office, Kuching, Sarawak ; $6.00 Straits). (Govern-...
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Reviews

01 January 1951
Comments Reviews Fifteenth Annual Report (1948) and Sixteenth Annual Report (1949) of the British Trust for Ornithology. Price 1/6. Obtainable from B.T.O., 91, Banbury Road, Oxford. These two reports give evidence of much useful work carried on under the auspices of the B...
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Notes

01 January 1951
Comments Notes ON March 23rd, 1947, I observed a presumed male Rook (Corvus fmgilegus) attempting coition on the ground with a presumed female of the same species. The rookery was about 50 yards away.ON,April 4th, 1949, at Little Plumstead, Norfolk, two Rooks were pres...
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The Building of A Rookery

01 January 1951
Comments Main paper OGILVIE OBSERVATIONS on Rook (Corvus frugilegus) behaviour during the incubation period and in winter have been recorded in previous issues of British Birds (antm, vol. xl, pp. 135-139, and xlii, pp. 65-68). The notes which follow are based on a study of...
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Letters

01 March 1946
Comments Letters SIRS,--Witts reference to your comments on t h e note o n . a Robin feeding a fledgling Blackbird (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p, 355), there is anotheroccurrence of a Robin feeding a brood of young Song-Thrushes mentioned, and illustrated, with three photograph...
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Reviews

01 March 1946
Comments Reviews Somerset Archcsol. & Nat. Hist. Soc, Ornithological Section. Report on Somerset Birds, 1944. T H I S contains many valuable records and others of purely local interest. Blagdon Reservoir has been well watched and provides good notes on duck, some in consi...
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