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01 April 1952 Comments Reviews Proceedings of the Xth International Ornithological Congress, Uppsala, June, 1950. "(Almquist & Wicksell, Uppsala, Sweden, 1952. Price Sw. Kr. 35, or £2 8s. 3d. Obtainable direct from Prof. S. Horstadius, Zoologiska Institutionen, Uppsala). T H I S ...

Notes

01 April 1952 Comments Notes Song-Thrush nesting in a Monkey-Puzzle Tree.--In connexion with the note (antea, p . 287) on a Mistle-Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) nesting in a Monkey Puzzle tree, it may be of interest to record that on May 6th, 1946, at Oxted, Surrey, I found a nest of a...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XXXVIII. The Redwing, Fieldfare

01 April 1952 Comments Main paper (Plates 29-36). APART from the Brambling {Fringilla montifringilla), of which we have already published a series of plates (vol. xliv, Plates 1-7), the Redwing (Turdus musicus) and Fieldfare (T. pilaris) are the only two passerines which winter in numbers...

Little Auks in Britain, 1948 to 1951

01 April 1952 Comments Main paper IN the two winters 1948-9 and 1949-50 an unusual number of Little Auks (A lie alle) visited the British Isles. Most noteworthy was a "wreck" (i.e., a widespread destruction of the species on land) in mid-February, 1950, probably the most extensive in the ...

Notes and display of the Magpie

01 April 1952 Comments Main paper (with text illustrations by R. GILLMOR). IN July, 1949,1 acquired a juvenile female Magpie (Pica pica) which was fixated on human beings and when adult regarded me as her mate. This bird's behaviour inspired closer observation of wild Magpies for comparat...

Letters

01 February 1938 Comments Letters SIRS,--In reply to Mr. Lockley's letter under this heading (antea, pp. 278-9), I had two main points t o make in m y report on Skokholm Island, namely :-- 1. That owing t o its depredations on Storm-Petrels, the Little Owl should, if possible, be prevente...

Notes

01 February 1938 Comments Notes ON April 15th, 1937, a male Bullfinch which appeared to be much larger than the British Bullfinch (Pyrrhula p. pileata) was seen moving about in some trees on Holy Island. Later in the day this bird was shot by a resident on the island and was sent in to...

Recovery of marked birds

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper Rawdon (Yorks), 24.4.37, by Bramhope (Yorks), 15.7.37. C. Wontner-Smith. Ditto 4-S-37- Allerton (Yorks), 13.8.37. Stodmarsh (Kent), 16.4.33, by Where ringed, --.9.37. Oxford Orn. Soc. R I N G E D AS FULL-GROWN. Gt. Budworth (Ches), 17.7.35, Acton Bridge ...

Birds seen in two winter transects of the North Atlantic

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper bird-counts of the North Atlantic crossing have already appeared, and in these the significance of the figures has been fully discussed. The most comprehensive is by V. C. Wynne-Edwards (Proc. Boston Soc, Nat. Hist., Vol. XL., No. 4, pp. 233-346. January,...

Notes on the Gannetries of Sule Stack and Sula Sgeir

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper (Plate I I . ) IT may be safely said that in a quarter of a century no new information has been added to our previous knowledge of the gannetry of Sule Stack, and with the exception of my notes on Sula Sgeir [10]* these same remarks apply to this latter g...

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Reviews

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XXXVIII. The Redwing, Fieldfare

Little Auks in Britain, 1948 to 1951

Notes and display of the Magpie

Letters

Notes

Recovery of marked birds

Birds seen in two winter transects of the North Atlantic

Notes on the Gannetries of Sule Stack and Sula Sgeir

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