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01 February 1957 Comments Letters ICELAND R E D W I N G S WINTERING SIRS,--October 1956 saw an unparalleled " i n v a s i o n " of Iceland Redwings (Turdus musicus coburni) through Fair Isle, big movements occurring on the i2th, i8th-2oth and 2zLth-25th with westerly weather. Of 333 Redwi...

Reviews

01 February 1957 Comments Reviews By K. E. L. SIMMONS. Reprinted (1956) from Ã„vicultural Magazine, vol. 61, pp. 3-13, 93-102, 131-146, 181-201, 235-253, 294-316. Obtainable from A. A. Prestwich, 61 Chase Road, London, N.14. Price 5s. M R . SIMMONS'S paper is really a miniature monogr...

Notes

01 February 1957 Comments Notes Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ãœ1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXVIII. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull

01 February 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates 9-1i) W E are fortunate to be able to publish this month photographs from Hungary of the Mediterranean Black-headed Gull (Larus melanocephalus) taken by D r . Peter Beretzk of the University of Szeged. D r . Beretzk has also been kind enough to gi...

Report on bird-ringing for 1955

01 February 1957 Comments Main paper Secretary, Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology. THIS is the nineteenthf report issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee. It combines a report on the progress of ringing during 1955 with a selected list of recoveries reported ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. LIII. Tawny Pipit

01 December 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 68-71) T H E Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris) is usually looked upon in Britain with greater interest than are the other rarer pipits. Possibly this is because it bred in Sussex on one or two occasions at the beginning of the present century or per...

Report from Bird Observatories, 1952

01 December 1953 Comments Main paper ONCE again we are glad to include a series of reports from the Bird Observatories. During 1952, one new Observatory--at Dungeness in Kent--was opened, thus bringing to eleven the total engaged in this kind of work, a total that has been further increased ...

Errata

01 December 1953 Comments Editorials VOL. XLVI. Line 13 from bottom, for "Savidge" read "Savage". Line 12 from bottom, for "extirpation" read "extirpation". Line 27 from bottom, for "cinerea" read "brachydactyla". Line 19, for "the first record" read "the second record". Line 17, for " E x e...

Letter

01 December 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--Beginning with 1953 an annual report for the county of Norfolk is to be published jointly by the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society and the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust and I would be grateful if any of your readers who have records of observat...

Reviews

01 December 1953 Comments Reviews The Birds of the British Isles. By D. A. Bannerman and G. E. Lodge. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1953.) Vol. I. 45s. Tins work was conceived as a vehicle to make available a complete range of Mr. Lodge's fine paintings. Undoubtedly his most widely known wor...

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Notes

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXVIII. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull

Report on bird-ringing for 1955

Studies of some species rarely photographed. LIII. Tawny Pipit

Report from Bird Observatories, 1952

Errata

Letter

Reviews

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