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01 September 1970 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The following analysis deals with August 1970, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The weather was fairly settled until about 15 th and again from 25 th. During i6th-24th a serie...

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01 September 1970 Comments News and comment N e w Department of the Environment The Prime Minister revealed in October the government's new administrative set-up for environmental matters. Under this reorganisation of government departments, the Right Honourable Peter Walker becomes Secretary of St...

Reviews

01 September 1970 Comments Reviews Where to Watch Birds in Britain and Europe. By John Gooders. Andre Deutsch, London, 1970. 299 pages; 25 black-and-white photographs; 27 sketch maps. 45s. In this successor to Where to Watch Birds (1967), whose scope was conrlned to Britain and Ireland, Jo...

Letters

01 September 1970 Comments Letters Melanistic White-fronted Geese Further to my note on melanistic European White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons albifrons (Brit. Birds, 63: 131), Eckhart Kuyken has drawn my attention to his recent paper on melanism, albinism and other plumage variants in wi...

Notes

01 September 1970 Comments Notes Common Scoters inland I was interested in the recent notes by Spencer (1969) and White (1970) on overland movements of Common Scoters Melanitta nigra, as not only The Handbook, but also Baxter and Rintoul (1953), Kennedy et al. (1955), Bannerman (1958), A...

A presumed hybrid Mediterranean X Black-headed Gull in Hampshire

01 September 1970 Comments Main paper Plate 6; In 1968, 1969 and 1970 several Mediterranean Gulls Larus melanocepbalus summered in a colony of Black-headed Gulls L.ridibundusat Needs Oar Point, Hampshire; in 1968 one pair of Mediterranean Gulls and a mixed pair of the two species raised young...

Obituaries: Norman Frederick Ticehurst

01 September 1970 Comments Main paper It is now more than a year since Dr Norman Ticehurst passed away in a nursing home at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, on 5 th December 1969, at the great age of 96 years. He had had such a long life that none of his contemporaries remained and there are few p...

The invasion of Nutcrackers in autumn 1968

01 September 1970 Comments Main paper Plates J9-64 The unprecedented total of some 315 Nutcrackers Nucifraga caryocatacies was recorded in Britain in autumn 1968. Before analysing these records, which were briefly summarised in the 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1968' {Brit. Birds,...

Letters

01 September 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Vosges mountains in France during the first World War earthenware pots especially designed for sparrows to nest in were to be seen on the walls of a great many farms and I have no doubt the practice still persists. These served a double purp...

Reviews

01 September 1953 Comments Reviews Rare and Extinct Birds of Britain. By Ralph Whitlock. (Phcenix House, London, 1953). 21s. I t is open to question whether a satisfactory book can be written on the subject of our rare and extinct birds. To contribute anything original to knowledge in this...

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A presumed hybrid Mediterranean X Black-headed Gull in Hampshire

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