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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., ...

Notice

01 March 1957 Comments Editorials Bird Observatories : new appointments. --Â· Mr. Kenneth Williamson, who has been Director of the Fair Isle Bird Observatory since it was established in 1948, is leaving the Observatory shortly. To replace Mr. Williamson, the Fair Is!e Bird Observatory- ...

Letters

01 March 1957 Comments Letters T H E BIRDS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE SIRS,--Material is being- collected for a small book on the birds of Gloucestershire by H. H. Davis, C. M. Swaine and myself; we have already made considerable progress in assembling infprmation. W e would be grateful for fu...

Reviews

01 March 1957 Comments Reviews Illustrated by PETER SCOTT (Country Life, London, 1956). Vol. I I . 232 pages, 24 colour plates, 29 maps. £6 6s. IN this second volume Mr. Delacour deals mainly with the dabbling or surface-feeding ducks of the genus Anas, in which are grouped 38 sp...

Notes

01 March 1957 Comments Notes Ortolan Bunting in Middlesex. -- On the morning of 2nd September 1956, I was Walking along the northern bank of the River Brent where it flows into the Brent Reservoir, Middlesex, noting the many migrants which had arrived in the comparative calm after a ...

The pattern of migration in 1955 at the east Coast bird Observatories

01 March 1957 Comments Main paper 22n& March-24th April. DURING the early spring little movement was noted at the East Coast Observatories, the weather being mainly westerly. Fair Isle was not manned, but the following' less common birds were recorded at the other stations (north to s o u...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXIX. Ptarmigan

01 March 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates 17-24) T H E Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) is widely distributed throughout the Palaearctic and Nearctic regions. F o r many years the record of being " t h e northernmost bird ever collected by m a n " was held by a Ptarmigan which was shot in 1876 a...

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Erythrism in the Eggs of British Birds.

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Notes

The pattern of migration in 1955 at the east Coast bird Observatories

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXIX. Ptarmigan

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