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01 February 1956 Comments Letters S I R S , -- A census of breeding Great Black-backed Gulls (Larus marinns) in England and W a l e s in 1956 has been approved as an investigation of the British Trust for Ornithology. As organise* I shall be glad of offers of help from those who are willi...

Reviews

01 February 1956 Comments Reviews By SETON GORDON, C.B.E. (Collins " New N a t u r a l i s t , " London, 1955). 246 pages, 17 photographs. 16s. A MONOGRAPH on the Golden Eagle in Scotland is long overdue and who could have produced a better one than Seton Gordon? For half a century the a...

Notes

01 February 1956 Comments Notes Displacement coition in the Mallard.--On ioth May, 1951, a t Clayton-le-dale, near Blackburn, Lancashire, I was engaged in watching the behaviour of a pair of Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) tending fifteen young, which were newly hatched. T h e young fed fo...

Birds of a Trans-Atlantic Voyage in Late Spring 1954

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory) ALTHOUGH there are many papers concerning- the birds observed during- transects of the North Atlantic there is still room for advancement of our knowledge of seasonal distribution over this vast expanse of ocean. The present p...

Delayed Emigration of Certain Birds in Autumn 1954

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper SEVERAL notes received by the Editors of British Birds in the winter of 1954-55 confirmed the impression of some individual observers that the departure of migratory birds, both summervisitors and passage-migrants, had been unusually delayed in the autumn...

The Migrations of British Chats

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper T H E purpose of this paper is to analyse the recovery records of birds of species of " c h a t s " ringed in the British Isles under the scheme now managed by the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and earlier by the late H . F ....

Records of Wood Sandpipers in Britain in the Autumn of 1952

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the autumn of 1952, as noted previously (antea, vol. xlv, p. 432), a considerable passage of W o o d Sandpipers (Tringa glareola) was observed in many parts of Great Britain, particularly in the south-east. There is some evidence that the numbers o...

Letters

01 February 1952 Comments Letters SIRS,--In your September issue (antea, vol. xliv, p. 314) is a sight record by Mr. D. D. Harber oi a "Sooty Shearwater" seen off the Sussex coast, "some way out" to sea. The bird is described simply as " a large, all-black shearwater with a rather heavy b...

Reviews

01 February 1952 Comments Reviews Grenlands Fugle. Part II. By Finn Saiomensen. Illustrated by GitzJohansen. (Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1951. 66s.). The second part of this important work deals with the Ptarmigan, the waders, skuas and galls and the Arctic Tern; as its prohibitive cost and ...

Supplementary Notes

01 February 1952 Comments Main paper As foreshadowed in an Editorial published in May, 1951 (antea, vol. xliv, p . 146), we propose to use this heading for a list of notes which either supplement information given in The Handbook or give further instances of behaviour already fully reported ...

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Birds of a Trans-Atlantic Voyage in Late Spring 1954

Delayed Emigration of Certain Birds in Autumn 1954

The Migrations of British Chats

Records of Wood Sandpipers in Britain in the Autumn of 1952

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Reviews

Supplementary Notes

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