Letters

01 August 1995 Comments Letters The female Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater at Jomfruland, Kragero, Telemark, Norway, on 1st June 1987 was not just 'found dead' as stated by McKay (1994). The bird was alive and feeding with Greenfinches Carduelis Moris on the ground in the garden of ...
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Letters

01 April 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. K. E. L. Simmons's letter (antea, p. 40) on this subject draws attention to reactions in trapped birds intermediate between remaining immobile on the open hand and the extreme, trance-like "death feigning". A further case may be of interest. On...
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Reviews

01 April 1951 Comments Reviews Notes on the Birds of Warwickshire by C. A. Norris. (Cornish Brothers Ltd., Birmingham, 1947). 8s. 6d. THE only previous account of the birds of this county was that published by R. F. Tomes in the Victoria History of Warwickshire in 1904. The present lit...
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