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01 June 1952 Comments Editorials 224 REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION. (i) A number of readers have already reported unusually early arrivals of summer migrants in 1952, especially in March. As a general rule we have regarded records of this sort as being the province of local reports, but such ...

Notes

01 June 1952 Comments Notes 13th, 1951, Campbell Ballantyne told G. E. Wooldridge of two warblers that he had been watching that morning. Although obviously warblers their identity was puzzling. He gave a fairly full description of the birds seen, the most striking feature being, "v...

Mid-season movements of Swifts in Sussex

01 June 1952 Comments Main paper IN his article, " T h e Movements of Swifts in S u m m e r " (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 146-152), H. G. Hurrell states that " t h e r e is evidence which suggests the possibility of an influx from the Continent about the end of J u n e " . My own observations...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XL. The Snow-Bunting

01 June 1952 Comments Main paper (Plates 45-51). As a winter visitor the Snow-Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) is mainly a coastal bird. As a rule it occurs in some numbers on the north and east coasts, but in most years smaller numbers are also seen in the west and south-west, so that it...

The breeding behaviour of the Swift

01 June 1952 Comments Main paper ...

Editorial

01 June 1952 Comments Editorials J U S T a year ago at the time of writing these words the first issue of British Birds to be produced by the new Editorial Board went to press, opening with an Editorial in which a number of aims and objects were stated. Some of these have been fulfilled...

Review

01 November 1950 Comments Letters Bird Life. By Edward A. Armstrong. (Lindsay Drummond, 1949.) 12/6. Field Study Books : The Lapwing. By E. A. R. Ennion. (Methuen, 1949.) 6/-. These two books, though differing in approach and in scope, have the same audience and end in view. They have bot...

Notes

01 November 1950 Comments Notes ON January 4th, 1950, we were standing in the road beside Bolney Grange Ltd., Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, watching about 30-40 WoodPigeons (Columba palumbus) feeding under a tree, when we heard the harsh calls of Carrion Crows (Corvus corone). We looked up, ...

Birds of Inner London, 1949

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper " A List of the Birds of Inner London " was published in 1929 by A. Holte Macpherson {vide antea, vol. xxii, pp. 222-244) and notes on changes in status and of unusual occurrences have appeared annually in British Birds since then. The volume of records r...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVIII. The Calandra Lark, The Short-Toed Lark, The Black-Eared Wheatear

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper (Plates 62-73) W E illustrate this month three South European passerine birds all characteristic of more or less arid country, the two larks especially so, and all photographed during the past summer on the Crau, the remarkable tract of stony, desert-like...

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Requests for Information

Notes

Mid-season movements of Swifts in Sussex

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XL. The Snow-Bunting

The breeding behaviour of the Swift

Editorial

Review

Notes

Birds of Inner London, 1949

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVIII. The Calandra Lark, The Short-Toed Lark, The Black-Eared Wheatear

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