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01 April 1957 Comments Reviews By LEONARD W . W I N G . (Ronald Press Company, New York, 1956). 539 pages, 222 textfigures and numerous tables. Price $6.75. THERE is g r e a t need at the present time for a general biology of birds covering the whole field, and the present book fills ...

Notes

01 April 1957 Comments Notes of Boelus, Nebraska, informs me that he wing-tipped a young female White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) whilst shooting on the North Platte river in the autumn of 1903 or 1904--he is not sure which---and took the bird back to his farm. H e goes on to say...

Neottiophilum Praeustum in birds' nests

01 April 1957 Comments Main paper Diptera with n o close relatives, being" the only member of the family Neottiophilidae. T h e larvae are ectoparasites of nestling birds and live in the lining of the nest, periodically attaching themselves to the nestlings and sucking blood. They are thu...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXX. Kite

01 April 1957 Comments Main paper THE K I T E or Red Kite (Milvus milvus) has a much more restricted rÃÂ¤nge than its close relative, the Black Kite (M. migrans), of which we published photographs just a year ago (antea, vol. xlix, plates 5-7, pp. 140-141). It is usually, too, a much...

The rarer birds of Prey: Their Present Status in the British Isles

01 April 1957 Comments Main paper Their Present Status in the British Isles T H E BIRDS OF PREY are a fascinating- group. They always attract attention and arouse an unusual degree of admiration or persecution according to outlook. Largely for that reason their distribution and their bree...

Notes

01 March 1943 Comments Notes WITH reference to Mr. J. M. B. Brown's remarks on the breeding of the Pied Flycatcher in the Forest of Dean (antea, p. 179), it may be of interest to note that In 1935 I was informed by Mr. R. Hendrie, a student at the School of Forestry, Parkend, that h...

The age of Some More British Birds

01 March 1943 Comments Main paper paper is a sequel to that on the Blackbird (Turdus m. merula) (Lack, 1943a), and the latter should be read first as the remarks on treatment of material and general principles apply equally to the present paper, but are not repeated. It should be stressed...

Birds of Inner London

01 March 1943 Comments Main paper CARMICHAEL LOW DURING the period under review (1942) there have been two new records for Inner London, viz. the Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides) and the Waxwing (BombycÃ¼la g. garrulus). Of other interesting occurrences the invasion of the City by Black...

The Instinctive Nature of Nest Sanitation Part- II

01 March 1943 Comments Main paper IN a previous article (antra, Vol. xxxv, pp. 120-4), attention was drawn to the fact that nest-sanitation manifests itself as an instinctive action on the part of the parent birds. The instinct to remove faeces from the area of the nest was shown to be ca...

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Reviews

Notes

Neottiophilum Praeustum in birds' nests

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXX. Kite

The rarer birds of Prey: Their Present Status in the British Isles

Notes

The age of Some More British Birds

Birds of Inner London

The Instinctive Nature of Nest Sanitation Part- II

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