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01 October 1958 Comments Letters EGGS D I S A P P E A R I N G F R O M P E R E G R I N E E Y R I E S S I R S , -- T h e paper by D r . D . A. Ratcliffe on " B r o k e n eggs in Peregrine eyries" (antea, pp. 23-29) has greatly interested me, as it seems to throw considerable light on past ... Read More

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCII. Little Shearwater

01 October 1958 Comments Main paper Photographs and text by John W a r h a m (Plates 64-67) The Little, Allied or Dusky Shearwater (Procellaria baroli = Puffinus assimilis) is a small black and white shearwater whose oceanic distribution lies mainly in cold water south of the Equator. The b... Read More

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01 November 1946 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have observed no less than twenty-three instances between February 27th and March 7th, 1946, where one Rook (Corvus f. frugUegus) was either in or standing upon t h e nest with two attendant Rooks perched close together a t some twelve t o ... Read More

Notes

01 November 1946 Comments Notes RAVEN NESTING IN A ROOKERY, ON March loth, 1946, I flushed a Raven (Corvus c. cor ax) from a nest at the top of a tall pine in a conifer wood about five miles from Cardiff. In view of previous records of this species nesting in rookeries (antea, Vol. xxx... Read More