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01 September 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to t h e article on " The Breeding-habits of t h e Dartford Warbler," and t o t h e statement on page 218, I have never seen a Dartford Warbler's nest in England, a n d know nothing of their habits in this country. I n t h e...

Reviews

01 September 1963 Comments Reviews British Diving Ducks. By J. G. Millais, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Vol. II. Seventeen coloured and twenty-five uneoloured plates. Longmans. In two volumes, £12 12s. net. IN our last volume (pp. 365-70) we gave an extended notice of the fisst part of Mr. Mill...

Notes

01 September 1963 Comments Notes A YOUNG drake Gadwall {Anas strepera) was shot on J a n u a r y 14th, 1913, a t Stretton. I saw t w o K n o t s (Canutus canutus) on October 12th, 1913, a t Bellfields Reservoir. I watched t h e m for some time through powerful glasses, a n d when one fle...

Erythrism in the Eggs of British Birds.

01 September 1963 Comments Main paper ALTHOUGH many scattered notes on this subject may be found in the various ornithological journals, very little has hitherto been done to collect these separate records; and beyond a short note by Adolf Kricheldorff in the Zeitschrift fur Oologie, XIII., ...

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...

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...

Nest-Sanitation and Fledging of the Green Woodpecker

01 January 1956 Comments Main paper THERE is considerable conflict in the accounts of nest-sanitation by the Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis). Owen (1921) w r i t e s : " F r o m . n e s t s I have opened from time to time after the young have flown, it seems that generally the nest is kept...

A Raven Roost in Devon

01 January 1956 Comments Main paper A T least one large roost of Ravens (Corvus corax) has been reported in Scotland and another in W a l e s . In W . Cornwall there was one in 1945 and 1946 near an abnormally liberal food supply. In October the number of Ravens using this roost was between...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXIX. Great Grey Owl

01 January 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 1-3) Though the Great Grey, or Lapland, O w l (Strix nebulosa) h a s never been recorded in Britain, we feel more than justified in publishing these magnificent photographs which we have received through Mr. Moberg's friend and companion, Kapten S...

The Autumn 1953 Invasion of Lapland Buntings and its Source

01 January 1956 Comments Main paper THERE were a number of remarkable features about the autumn migration of 1953, and not the least of these was the phenomenal invasion of Britain by Lapland Buntings (Calcarius lapponicus), which occupied at least a month from 3rd September. This species h...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

Erythrism in the Eggs of British Birds.

Reviews

Notes

Nest-Sanitation and Fledging of the Green Woodpecker

A Raven Roost in Devon

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXIX. Great Grey Owl

The Autumn 1953 Invasion of Lapland Buntings and its Source

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