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The behaviour of adult tits towards other birds and mammals near the nest

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Letters

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 ...

Notes

01 October 1958 Comments Notes Killdeer in Cornwall.--On 26th December 1957, a bird was accidently shot during a snipe shoot in a small marsh on the edge of Trembleath W o o d , St. Columb Major, near Newquay, Cornwall. It was sent to the British Museum (Natural History) where it was f...

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...

Population and breeding environment of the St. Kilda and Fair Isle Wrens

01 October 1958 Comments Main paper T H E FIRST WRITER to mention the existence of a W r e n (Troglodytes troglodytes) on St. Kilda, over a hundred miles west of the Scottish mainland and half that distance from the Outer Hebrides, was Martin (1698); but it was left to Macaulay (1764) to po...

Nocturnal migration of Thrushes

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper OBSERVATIONS on both day and night migrants, made near Dublin in the autumn of 1952, have already been briefly reported elsewhere (Browne, 1953). Two conclusions on the nocturnal migration of thrushes seem worthy of more detailed consideration. These are ...

Some photographic studies of the American Robin

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 56-59). T H E American Robin (Turdus migratorius) has of course no particular connection with its Old World namesake (Erithacus rubecula), other than a certain similarity in the colour of the breast which doubtless caused the homesick early coloni...

American Robin on Lundy

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper PETER DAVIS (Lundy Bird Observatory). (Plate 59) AN American Robin (Turdus migratorhis) was present on Lundy from October 27th to November 8th, 1952. It was probably first seen on October 25th, by one of the islanders.On the morning- of October 27th I fou...

Migration at the Kentish Knock lightship

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper IN conjunction with the 1952 autumn watch for visible migration organised by the Edward Grey Institute (Lack, in press)*, I visited the Kentish Knock Lightship (51 Â°39'24"N., OIÂ°4.O'4.8"E.) which is situated in the Thames approaches in the southern ...

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