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01 July 1963 Comments Reviews The Oannet: a Bird with a History. By J. H . Gurney, F.L.S. pp. lii., 568. Many illustrations. Witlierby and Co. 27s. 6d. net. M E . J. H. G U E N E Y ' S monograph forms a n attractive volume of some 568 pages, copiously illustrated with maps and reprodu...

Letters

01 July 1963 Comments Letters Sms,--Referring to my letter on this subject published in BRITISH BIRDS, November, 1912 (Vol. VI., p. 199), I feel t h a t in fairness to Mr. O. V. Aplin, who originally recorded the breeding of t h e Longtailed Duck in Orkney in t h e Zoologist, I should...

Notes

01 July 1963 Comments Notes D U R I N G part of September and October, 1913, we were in R a t h l i n Island, off co. Antrim, a n d while there observed among others t h e following species which are seldom recorded from t h e north of Ireland. GREENLAND REDPOLL (Carduelis I. rostr...

The " British Birds" Marking Scheme

01 July 1963 Comments Main paper The number of readers who have helped in the ringing since my last report has increased to ninety, and the number of birds ringed is again much larger than previous records, as will be seen by the following figures :--Mr. H. W. Robinson once again heads t...

Breeding of the Roseate Tern in Ireland

01 July 1963 Comments Main paper FOR a considerable number of years the Roseate Tern (Sterna dougalli) has been excluded from the list of Irish breeding birds. The late Mr. Ussher, in his report on the birds of Clare Island (Proc. B. Irish Acad., Vol. XXXI., part 20, page 39), stated tha...

Obituary. Richard John Ussher. A Memoir

01 July 1963 Comments Obituaries A TRTTE conception of the position Mr. R. J. Ussher occupied amongst Irish Naturalists, cannot be readily conveyed. Amongst Irish ornithologists he was facile princeps, the " Recording Angel," and had at his finger-ends all the records of the distribution...

Letters

01 August 1953 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I was most interested to read the account by J. D. Macdonald of t h e recovery of an albatross in Derbyshire (antea, pp. I I O - I I I ) and to see the accompanying photograph (plate 13), because in m y opinion the bird was a Yellow-nosed Alb...

Notices and Requests for Information

01 August 1953 Comments Editorials Unusual passage of Firecrests.--It is evident t h a t a quite unusual number of Firecrests (Regulus ignicapillus) passed through the south and south-east of Britain, particularly in the region of the coast, during the late autumn of 1952 and the spring of...

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01 August 1953 Comments Reviews The Birds of Lancashire. By Clifford Oakes. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1953). 21s. od. One cannot fail to be impressed by the wealth of information which is presented here, and the care with which it has evidently been sifted. Local distribution, of cours...

Notes

01 August 1953 Comments Notes On the feeding habits of the Redshank and the Spotted Redshank.-- Observations were made on the feeding of Redshank (Tringa totanus) and Spotted Redshank (T. erythropus) on a shallow, tideless mud lagoon surrounded by reeds. The method employed was to ob...

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Breeding of the Roseate Tern in Ireland

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