Letters

01 September 1950
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n their paper on this subject in British Birds, vol. xlii, p. 325, David and Elizabeth Lack write t h a t Dr. D. A. Bannerman in his note on Chaffinch Migration in .British Birds, vol. xxxvii, p . 177, supposed t h a t the birds he saw in N...
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Reviews

01 September 1950
Comments Reviews Report of the Natural History Section of the Wiltshire Archcsological &ยท Natural History Society, 1947 and 1948. Some of the interesting records in these two carefully compiled reports have already appeared in British Birds : a Roller reported (antea, v...
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Notes

01 September 1950
Comments Notes WITH regard to the swimming of small passerines (antea, vol. xl, pp. 179, vol. xlii, p. 183, vol. xliii, p. 121), the following incidents may be of interest. At the Eye Brook Reservoir, Leicestershire, a colony of Tree-Sparrows (Passer montanus) uses the...
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Fair Isle bird observatory

01 February 1950
Comments Main paper Compiled by KENNETH WILLIAMSON (Director). The following notes have been selected from the Fair Isle Bird Observatory " Notes on Species " record-book as much for their importance in amplifying the information contained in The Handbook of British Birds a...
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Reviews

01 February 1950
Comments Reviews Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. Committee for Ornithology Reports for 1947 and 1948. Edited by Ralph Chislett. (Reprinted from The Naturalist, 1948, pp. 51-74, and 1949, 51-75.) T H E S E reports as usual contain much valuable material. Up to four Gannets w...
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Notes

01 February 1950
Comments Notes DURING a visit to Thanet in the autumn of 1947, I was enabled, through the kindness of Mrs. Powell-Cotton, to examine the small collection of locally-taken bird-skins in the above museum. These were made readily available to me by the present Curator, Mr...
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