Notes

01 March 1956
Comments Notes Warblers (Hippolais icterina) were watched at Fair Isle, and identification confirmed by trapping- and examination of the wingformula, on 30th May and 9th September 1954. T h e purpose of this note is to draw attention to a useful distinguishing character...
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Letter

01 April 1953
Comments Letters SIRS.--I am trying to collect information about ultra-quiet bird song (sub-song, etc.) and I should be grateful if you would allow me to appeal through the medium of British Birds for any help that other observers can give me. As records on this subject a...
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Reviews

01 April 1953
Comments Reviews Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society. Twenty-first Annual Report, 1951. Edited by B. H. Ryves, A. G. Parsons and H. M. Quick. T H I S report follows its usual make-up, with systematic notes split up over 3 sections ; there are also separate ta...
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Reviews

01 April 1953
Comments Reviews Mountain Birds. By R. A. H. Coombes. Plates by G. E. Lodge. (Penguin Books, King Penguin series, London, 1952). 4s. 6d. Mountain Birds is written and illustrated with grasp and originality, but is only permitted by the King Penguin format to deal with six...
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