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01 August 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Is it generally known t h a t t h e Green Woodpecker eats fruit ? I watched one on October 23rd making a hearty meal off an apple a few yards from m y window, and since then many large apples picked u p plainly show t h e marks of this bird's power...

Reviews

01 August 1963 Comments Reviews Report on the Immigration of Summer-residents in the Spring of 1912 ; also Notes on the Migratory Movements and Records received from Lighthouses and Light-vessels during the Autumn of 1911. By the Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Club (...

Notes

01 August 1963 Comments Notes I WAS at Dungeness from October 20th to 23rd, 1913, and a great deal of migration was proceeding at the time, chiefly of flocks of finches and other birds flying south in the early morning. Between 12 noon and 1 p.m. on the 20th I saw a party of thirteen...

Recovery of Marked Birds.

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper STABLINGS (Stumus v. vulgaris).--U513, 41526, 41539, 46201, 46284, 46310, 46314, 46363, 46375, immature, marked b y Mr. W. E . Suggitt, at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, during J u l y and August, 1913. Recovered during November and December, 1913, from near ...

The Dusky Warbler in Orkney. A New British Bird.

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper EAGLE CLARKE writes to the Scottish Naturalist (1913, pp. 271-3) that during the past autumn he and Dr. 0. B. Ticehurst with George Stout were observing migration on Auskerry (Orkneys), and that on October 3rd, 1913, a strange warbler was detected and ev...

On the Breeding-Habits of the Dartford Warbler

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper M Y first introduction to the Dartford Warbler {Sylvia undata dartfordiensis) was in 1906 in one of the home counties. Since then I have had exceptional opportunities of studying this most interesting bird, and some forty pairs in four widely separated lo...

Reviews

01 November 1947 Comments Reviews British Game. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. (The New Naturalist series, Collins, London, 1946). Price 16s. This is the first of the New Naturalist series to be concerned primarily with birds. I t is not exclusively so concerned because mammals are also inclu...

Notes

01 November 1947 Comments Notes ON a fine morning in April, 1946, a number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula), Song-Thrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) and Starlings (Siurnus v. vulgaris) were watched while feeding on a large lawn of King's College, Cambridge. The Starlings spent most of the...

The Colour-Phases of the Fulmar

01 November 1947 Comments Main paper THE Handbook (Vol-, iv, p. 79) contains a statement of mine on the distribution of the colour phases of the Fulmar (Fulmarus g. glatialis) which is erroneous. It runs ;--"proportions of dark birds are-- Brit. Is. up to 2 per cent., except Shetland, where...

Studies of some species Rarely Photographed. XI. The Rufous, Sardinian and Olivaceous Warblers

01 November 1947 Comments Main paper (Plates 32-39)THE unique photographs of these three warblers were taken at Habbaniya on the Euphrates in Iraq during the war by Mr. A. Stubbs, who has contributed some useful notes on all three species as observed in that locality. All three are on the Br...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

Recovery of Marked Birds.

The Dusky Warbler in Orkney. A New British Bird.

On the Breeding-Habits of the Dartford Warbler

Reviews

Notes

The Colour-Phases of the Fulmar

Studies of some species Rarely Photographed. XI. The Rufous, Sardinian and Olivaceous Warblers

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