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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...

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...

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...

Secondary song: a tentative classification

01 April 1953 Comments Main paper MY object in this short paper is to suggest a more exact terminology as a preliminary to further investigation of the fascinating problems of those quiet secondary songs which, since Nicholson (1927) drew attention to them, have come to be generally known...

Studies of some species rarely photographed, XLVIII. Little Bittern

01 April 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 17-24). of these fine photographs of the Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) were taken in Holland, the others in the Camargue--two localities which give some indication of the breeding range of the species close to Britain, in spite of the fact t...

The birds of Bardsey Island in 1952

01 April 1953 Comments Main paper IT is remarkable that an island as well situated as Bardsey should be so little known to ornithologists. It is now 40 years since Dr. N. F. Ticehurst paid his visits from June 12th to June 25th and from September 3rd to September 22nd, 1913, the latter wi...

Letters

01 February 1948 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t seems a n opportune moment for making a plea t h a t t h e scope of the British Trust Ringing Scheme should be widened by making rings available for use outside t h e British Islands. While we fully appreciate the organizational a n d sup...

Reviews

01 February 1948 Comments Reviews Aristocrats'' of the Air. By Captain C. W. R. Knight. (Williams and Norgate, London, 1946). 30s. od. The first edition of this eminently readable book was first published in 1935, but has been out of print for nearly twenty years. This, the second edition...

Notes

01 February 1948 Comments Notes DURING the years 1946 and 1947 I have noticed several species singing outside what appears to be their normal song-period as defined in The Handbook charts. Some of these variations are considerable, others less so. The particulars are as follows :-- NUT...

Studies of some rarely photographed: XIII. The Scottish Crossbill

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper Photographed by ERIC HOSKING. (Plates 9-14). We regard the title of this series as covering well-marked subspecies as well as species in the strict sense, and on this interpretation the Scottish Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra scotica) is certainly entitled...

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Letter

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Secondary song: a tentative classification

Studies of some species rarely photographed, XLVIII. Little Bittern

The birds of Bardsey Island in 1952

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some rarely photographed: XIII. The Scottish Crossbill

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