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01 June 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgement alone, from sources generallyfound to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Notes

01 June 1960 Comments Notes Piracy by GadwalL--On 30th December 1959, near Cley, Norfolk, we watched four Gadwall (Anas strepera) worrying a drake Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina), apparently with the aim of robbing it of its food. They followed it very closely and whenever it div...

Some notes on the Rufous Warbler

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper T H I S P A P E R is based primarily on observations made from May to October 1958 at Khanaqin in eastern Iraq, a border town on the banks of the Alwand River in the foothills of the Jebel Hamrin Mountains, about 90 miles north-east of Baghdad. When I arr...

The distribution and numbers of Kittiwakes and Guillemots at St. Kilda

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper T H E R E A R E several reasons why no attempt has previously been made to describe in detail the distribution and numbers of the Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) and the Guillemot (Uria aalge) at St. Kilda. The colonies are extremely difficult of access, bei...

Juvenile and winter plumages of the Marsh terns

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper Migration Research Officer, B.T.O. (Plate 36) I D E N T I F I C A T I O N of the three British marsh terns (Chlidonias spp.) outside the breeding season has long constituted a problem for the bird-watcher. There is a cautionary note in The Handbook of Bri...

Lesser Short-toed Larks in Cos. Kerry, Wexford and Mayo : a bird new to Britain and Ireland

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper A H I G H L Y I N T E R E S T I N G a n d fully a c c e p t e d a d d i t i o n t o t h e list of t h e b i r d s of Britain a n d I r e l a n d t h a t has n o t yet received full n o t i c e in this j o u r n a l is t h e Lesser S h o r t - t o e d L a ...

Birds of the North Atlantic and Newfoundland Banks in July and August, 1950

01 June 1951 Comments Main paper ...

Distraction-Display In The Kentish Plover

01 June 1951 Comments Main paper T H E general form of the reaction patterns of breeding' Kentish Plovers (Leucopolius alexandrinus) to potential predators has been outlined by Selous (1927), but no detailed description has yet appeared in the literature. The behaviour of Kentish Plovers...

Letters

01 June 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Council of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club have pleasure in intimating that a "Rare Birds' Protection" Committee has been formed to work in close conjunction with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and the following have kindly co...

Books Received

01 June 1951 Comments Main paper West Midland Bird Distribution Survey.--Compiled and produced by C. A. Norris. (Published for Private Circulation). A Book of Ducks.--By Phyllis Barclay-Smith. (Penguin Books, 3/6). Animal Evolution.--By G. S. Carter. (Sidgwick & Jackson, 30/-). Zoogeogra...

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