Recent Reports and News

01 August 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to he reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Reviews

01 August 1960 Comments Reviews The Bird in the Hand. By R. K. Cornwallis and A. E. Smith. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, i960. 69 pages. 4s. (Obtainable from the B.T.O., 2 King Edward Street, Oxford, at 4s. 6d. including postage.) At last the bird-ringer has available the type ...
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Notes

01 August 1960 Comments Notes Attempted coition by Little Stints on autumn passage.--At Radipole Lake, Weymouth, Dorset, on 4th October 1957, I became very interested in the behaviour of two Little Stints (Calidris minutd). One was making short runs or low level flights across a shall...
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Reviews

01 January 1956 Comments Reviews By D . A. BANNERMAN and G. E. LODGE. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1955). V O L . I V . 259 p a g e s ; 29 plates. 45s. T H E present volume is a worthy successor to the preceding ones, but again whets the appetite for those which are to come. It covers t...
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Notes

01 January 1956 Comments Notes Harlequin Duck in Shetland.--While watching- waders at half tide at the Pool of Virkie, south Shetland, on the afternoon of 16th October 1955, we noticed a small dark duck which we believed was a female or first-winter Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrio...
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