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01 September 1974 Comments Editorials Colour-ringed Great Black-backed GullsA three-year study of the feeding ecology of the Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus during 1974-76 includes the colour-ringing of some 3,600 nestlings at breeding colonies in Orkney with a two-colour comb... Read More

Notes

01 September 1974 Comments Notes Great Spotted Woodpecker tapping on window paneAt 5.30 am on 10th June 1974 I was wakened by a loud tapping on the bedroom window of my house at Bow Brickhill, Buckinghamshire. After three or four taps I drew back the curtains and saw a Great Sp... Read More

Studies of less familiar birds: 173. Icterine Warbler

01 September 1974 Comments Main paper The Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina, so characteristic of the cultivated parklands and town parks of central and eastern Europe, is named by virtue of its general coloration from the Greek ikteros, meaning 'jaundice' or 'a greenish-yellow bird'. Th... Read More

Letters

01 May 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. N. D. Pullen, Mr. H. G. Hurrell and Miss N. C. Hicks (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300 and 360) have drawn attention t o an interesting problem of behaviour. I have observed t h e " digging " in the bottom of the nest, as described by the abov... Read More