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01 September 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Notes

01 September 1959 Comments Notes Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) have been known to breed on the Flannan Isles, some 20 miles west of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, since 1904 ( W . Eagle Clarke, Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1905, pp. 8-19 and 80-86). However, apart from the discovery of colo...

Obituaries: Gustav Kramer (1910-1959), James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959), John Hugh Owen (1877-1959)

01 September 1959 Comments Obituaries personal friend to many of us but also a serious blow to ornithology and to international science. To many ornithologists he was mainly known through his pioneer studies in bird navigation--which were both original and penetrating--but he did equally outs...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: C. Ruff

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper IN OUR AVIFAUNA the Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) is the most extreme example of a " l e k " b i r d ; a species which, like the Blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix) and many other gallinaceous birds, birds of paradise (Paradiseidae), Gould's Manakin (Manacus manacus) ...

Text of an automatic nest-recorder

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper By TOMOO ROYAMA of Forest-Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, Japan) VARIOUS DEVICES have been described by various authors for the purpose of registering visiting frequencies by birds to their nests (see Kendeigh, 1952 ; Gibb, 1956). An...

Variation in a population of Yellow Wagtails

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper DURING 1957 and 1958 several greyish-headed yellow wagtails, which appeared to be identical in appearance with Sykes's W a g tail (Motacilla flava beema) of western Siberia, bred at Beddington sewage farm, Hackbridge, Surrey. Since the discovery by Arnold...

Notes

01 September 1947 Comments Notes ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking some...

Report of the bird-ringing committee

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper THIS is the tenth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The composition of the Committee remains the same...

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper the co-operation of 64 observers, it has been possible to provide evidence of the breeding of at least ten pairs of Black Redstarts (Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) in England in 1946. A further 13 pairs or singing males occupied territories, but wi...

Notes on Welsh Choughs

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper As THE Chough (Pyrrhocorax p. pyrrhocorax) is one of our lesserknown species, the following observations might be of interest as furnishing corroboration of the excellent account of this species given in The Handbook. The notes are the result of observati...

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Recent reports and News

Notes

Obituaries: Gustav Kramer (1910-1959), James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959), John Hugh Owen (1877-1959)

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: C. Ruff

Text of an automatic nest-recorder

Variation in a population of Yellow Wagtails

Notes

Report of the bird-ringing committee

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

Notes on Welsh Choughs

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