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01 September 1961 Comments Reviews The Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh. By H . Albert Hochbaum. Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, U.S.A., 1959 (second edition). 207 pages; 18 photographs. $4.50. Originally published towards the end of the 1939-45 war, this was the first of a series of authorita...

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01 September 1961 Comments Notes Manx Shearwater d i g g i n g by daylight.--At about 2.30 p.m. on 15th May 1961, I was walking in bright sunlight on a sloping cliff on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, when I heard a Manx Shearwater (Procellaria puffinus) calling from its burrow. Kneeling down w...

Mallard feeding from dead birds

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper from dead birds. The Birds of the 'London Area since ipoo (1957, p . 133) mentions several observations of Mallard {Anas platyrhynchos) seizing and drowning House Sparrows {Passer domesticus) and on at least two occasions the victims were swallowed {Royal...

Dowitchers in Great Britain and Ireland

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper T H E P A P E R BY P I T E L K A (1961) in this issue of British Birds shows that both the Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) and the Short-billed Dowitcher (L. griseus) have occurred in the British Isles. At the request of the editors, I am ...

Long-billed and Short-billed Dowitcher specimens in the British Museum

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper "Red-breasted Snipe" have been assigned to the one species, ~Limnodromus griseus, recognised by American ornithologists (see A.O.U. Check-list 1931; Peters 1934). However, the excellent work of Rowan (1932) first called attention to evidence that there we...

The relationship between foot-movements and feeding in shore birds

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper I S H O U L D L I K E to make some observations which may serve to cast a different light upon the subject of foot-movements in shore birds, since in the literature there is a tendency to associate this behaviour with the luring of worms to the surface of...

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01 November 1954 Comments Notes known that the Heron {Ardea cinerea) frequently eats eels, but there are probably few photographs in existence showing - the nestling's capacity to swallow them. The photograph reproduced on plate 65 was taken at Noorden, Holland, on May 1st, iqj4,. when ...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds. LX. Caspian Tern

01 November 1954 Comments Main paper (Plates 61-64). T H E Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) is perhaps the most impressive of all the terns on account of its large size, approaching: that of the Herring Gull (Larus argentatus), and because of its massive, shining orange-red bill, of which a...

Report on bird-ringing for 1953

01 November 1954 Comments Main paper T H I S is the seventeenth reportf issued on behalf of the Committee, continuing the earlier sequence under the title " T h e British Birds Marking S c h e m e " . It combines a report on the progress of ringing during 1953 with a selected list of recover...

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Reviews

Notes

Mallard feeding from dead birds

Dowitchers in Great Britain and Ireland

Long-billed and Short-billed Dowitcher specimens in the British Museum

The relationship between foot-movements and feeding in shore birds

Notes

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds. LX. Caspian Tern

Report on bird-ringing for 1953

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