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Crossbills in Sweden in 1953

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Obituary: Stuart Smith, D.Sc, Ph.D. (1906-1963)

01 October 1955 Comments Obituaries T H E U N T I M E L Y D E A T H of Dr. Stuart Smith on j t h August, 1963 as a result of unexpected complications following an operation which it had been anticipated would be a comparatively minor one, has deprived British ornithology of one of its most ...

Recent reports

01 October 1955 Comments News and comment [These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] This summary is mainly concerned with the period from 21st July to 10th September. Highlights included a heavy passage of northern waders, a striking movement of Black Terns, the now annual ...

News and comment

01 October 1955 Comments News and comment Annual Conference.--The Annual Conference of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club will be held at the Hotel Dunblane (formerly Dunblane Hydro Hotel), Perthshire, from 25 th to 27th October. Guest speakers will be Dr. Kai CurryLindahl, from Stockholm, on 'Bi...

Request for information

01 October 1955 Comments Editorials Status and distribution of the Chough.--There ate indications that the Chough {Pyrrbocorax pyrrhocorax) has been increasing during the last decade in Wales and the Isle of Man, but in the absence of any systematic survey there is no definite evidence. The...

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...

Black Redstarts on Pett level, East Sussex

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper [The observations now published by Mr. Cooke, whose discovery of Black Terns breeding on Pett Level during the war {antea, Vol. xxxix, p. 71) will be recalled by readers, are of great interest in carrying the history of the breeding of the Black Redstart...

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