Letters

01 February 1957
Comments Letters ICELAND R E D W I N G S WINTERING SIRS,--October 1956 saw an unparalleled " i n v a s i o n " of Iceland Redwings (Turdus musicus coburni) through Fair Isle, big movements occurring on the i2th, i8th-2oth and 2zLth-25th with westerly weather. Of 333 Redwi...
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Reviews

01 February 1957
Comments Reviews By K. E. L. SIMMONS. Reprinted (1956) from Ävicultural Magazine, vol. 61, pp. 3-13, 93-102, 131-146, 181-201, 235-253, 294-316. Obtainable from A. A. Prestwich, 61 Chase Road, London, N.14. Price 5s. M R . SIMMONS'S paper is really a miniature monogr...
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Notes

01 February 1957
Comments Notes Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ü1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy...
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Notes

01 June 1943
Comments Notes As The Handbook of British Birds states that the Wood-Lark (Lullula a. arborea) does not apparently now nest in Essex, it is perhaps worth recording that on April n t h , 1943 I found a nest of this species on a piece of rough ground a few miles south of...
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Review

01 June 1943
Comments Reviews Bird Display : An Introduction to the study of Bird Psychology. By Edward A. Armstrong. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1942). Illustrated: 2 1 / - n e t ; T H I S is certainly one of t h e most useful and welcome bird books t h a t have appeared for a long time,...
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