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01 October 1950 Comments Letters --I am engaged in investigating t h e ringing records of Blue Tits. Amongst the known causes of death it is astonishing to find that the mousetrap is a principal one. I t may be necessary to place r a t and mouse traps in gardens, b u t I suggest that the...

Notes

01 October 1950 Comments Notes WITH reference to the note (antea, p. 54) on this topic, in June, 1949, an Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura) made repeated stoops at my companion, Dr. H. K. Whitehouse, while he was standing by the bank of the river in Hvalfjordur a few yards from our camp in...

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper A CENSUS of cliff-nesting seabirds is usually carried out by making a careful count of every occupied nest, thus giving the number of breeding pairs. This is the most accurate method and can be carried out comparatively easily in the case of species that ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVII. Temminck's Stint, The Semipalmated Sandpiper, The Little Stint

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper Photographed by C. G. DES FORGES and j . E. SLUITERS. (Plates 50-59)IN the present instalment of this series we illustrate the two European stints and one of the American species on the British List. Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii) has a wide bree...

Recovery of marked birds

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper Fair Isle Bird Obs., 8.6.49. Noness, Shetland, 25.10.49. Rogart (Suth.), 26.5.49, D y Bushmills (Antrim), 3.12.49. R. Carrick. St. Osyth (Essex), 17.5.49, Boston (Lines.), 13.11.49 by R. W. Arthur. [95 m. N.N.W.].Chipping (Lanes.), 23.3.50 [170 m. S.]. Ly...

Notes

01 January 1948 Comments Notes WITH reference to my note (antea, Vol. xl, p. 209) concerning the large gathering of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in Carmarthenshire in March, 1946, I was interested to read Mr. Cadman's note which immediately followed my own. In reply to Mr. Cadman's query ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XII. The Bee-eater

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper the most exotic-looking of European birds, the Bee-eater (Merofis afiaster) is in fact a representative of a group mainly confined to the tropical regions of the Old World. So far as the western portion of its range is concerned it is a characteristically...

The breeding of Avocets in England in 1947

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper (Plates 1-3.) the summer of 1947 two small colonies of Avocets (Recurvirostra avosetta) established themselves in East Anglia. Apart from the isolated instance of two pairs nesting in Ireland in 1938 (Handbook of British Birds, Vol. iv, p. 411), this woul...

The mating ceremonial of some Doves

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper THE Handbook does not describe the coitional ceremony of the Turtle-Dove {Streptopelia t. turtur) and dismisses that of the StockDove (Columba cenas) and Rock-Dove (C. /. livid) as similar to that of the Wood-Pigeon (C. p. palnmbus). It is true that in th...

Birds of inner London

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper [The Editors regret that owing to pressure of other matter it was impossible to include this article in Vol. xl.] THE return of numerous observers to civilian life has resulted in the resumption of bird watching in London, and to a welcome increase in rec...

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Letters

Notes

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVII. Temminck's Stint, The Semipalmated Sandpiper, The Little Stint

Recovery of marked birds

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XII. The Bee-eater

The breeding of Avocets in England in 1947

The mating ceremonial of some Doves

Birds of inner London

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