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The behaviour of adult tits towards other birds and mammals near the nest

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Letters

01 October 1958 Comments Letters EGGS D I S A P P E A R I N G F R O M P E R E G R I N E E Y R I E S S I R S , -- T h e paper by D r . D . A. Ratcliffe on " B r o k e n eggs in Peregrine eyries" (antea, pp. 23-29) has greatly interested me, as it seems to throw considerable light on past ...

Notes

01 October 1958 Comments Notes Killdeer in Cornwall.--On 26th December 1957, a bird was accidently shot during a snipe shoot in a small marsh on the edge of Trembleath W o o d , St. Columb Major, near Newquay, Cornwall. It was sent to the British Museum (Natural History) where it was f...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCII. Little Shearwater

01 October 1958 Comments Main paper Photographs and text by John W a r h a m (Plates 64-67) The Little, Allied or Dusky Shearwater (Procellaria baroli = Puffinus assimilis) is a small black and white shearwater whose oceanic distribution lies mainly in cold water south of the Equator. The b...

Population and breeding environment of the St. Kilda and Fair Isle Wrens

01 October 1958 Comments Main paper T H E FIRST WRITER to mention the existence of a W r e n (Troglodytes troglodytes) on St. Kilda, over a hundred miles west of the Scottish mainland and half that distance from the Outer Hebrides, was Martin (1698); but it was left to Macaulay (1764) to po...

The index of heron population

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper The number of heronries on which reports for 1949 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 162, or 16 more than in the previous year. Of these 117 were in England, 9 in Wales, 17 in Scotland and 19 in Ireland. We are indebted to 79 informants of who...

The Behaviour Of Corn-Crakes

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper MASON DURING the past few years the writer, with the help of friends, has carried out a series of experiments with Corn-Crakes {Crex crex) The experiments consist in calling up Corn-Crakes to a stuffed dummy by imitating the " crake-crake " song with a p...

On The Courtship And Social Displays Of Three Species Of Auk

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper CONDER DURING the summer of 1947 I had opportunities of watching the breeding displays of the Razorbill (Aha torda), the Guillemot (Una aalge), and the Puffin (Fratercula arctica) on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire. The displays of the three species occurred chi...

SEQUENCE OF PLUMAGES IN BRITISH BIRDS I.—INTRODUCTORY

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