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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...

Reviews

01 September 1950 Comments Reviews Report of the Natural History Section of the Wiltshire Archcsological &· 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...

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...

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

01 September 1950 Comments Main paper The recoveries of Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus), Common Gull (Larus canus), and Teal (Anas crecca) from Dutch decoys, are too numerous to be included. To the list of Ringing Stations already published*, one not previou...

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain in 1949

01 September 1950 Comments Main paper THE Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) has now firmly established itself as a summer resident in England. In 1949 at least twenty-seven pairs spent the summer at fifteen localities in eight counties ; eighteen pairs are known to have bred and at lea...

Notes

01 June 1946 Comments Notes WITH reference to Lt.-Col. B. H. Ryves's statement (antea, p. 43) that all species of buntings are absent in the Scillies, it may be of interest to record that my husband and I saw and heard several Corn-Buntings {Emberiza calandra) in song on St. Agnes,...

Studies of some Species rarely Photographed. V. The Three-toed Woodpecker

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper Photographed 6y H. N. SOUTHERN. (Plates 21-22). T H E Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) is one of the birds of Western Europe of which there is no good evidence t h a t it has occurred in the British Isles, though Donovan's History of British ...

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper THIS is the ninth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence by H. F. Witherby published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The Committee has been reconsti...

Birds of inner London

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper D U R I N G the year under review (1945), there has been one new record for Inner London, viz., t h e White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons), a flock of this species having been seen by Mrs. Rait Kerr crossing over Lords on February 17th. Mr. Holte Macpher...

Further Notes on the Breeding of Blue Tits

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper IN a previous paper (Vol. xxxviii, p. 205), I have given the results of some of my observations on the feeding of nestlings of the Blue Tit (Pants cmmleus obscurus). In 1945, I decided to extend the scope of the investigation to include, if possible, such...

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Letters

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Notes

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain in 1949

Notes

Studies of some Species rarely Photographed. V. The Three-toed Woodpecker

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

Birds of inner London

Further Notes on the Breeding of Blue Tits

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