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01 September 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

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01 September 1959 Comments Notes Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) have been known to breed on the Flannan Isles, some 20 miles west of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, since 1904 ( W . Eagle Clarke, Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1905, pp. 8-19 and 80-86). However, apart from the discovery of colo...

Obituaries: Gustav Kramer (1910-1959), James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959), John Hugh Owen (1877-1959)

01 September 1959 Comments Obituaries personal friend to many of us but also a serious blow to ornithology and to international science. To many ornithologists he was mainly known through his pioneer studies in bird navigation--which were both original and penetrating--but he did equally outs...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: C. Ruff

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper IN OUR AVIFAUNA the Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) is the most extreme example of a " l e k " b i r d ; a species which, like the Blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix) and many other gallinaceous birds, birds of paradise (Paradiseidae), Gould's Manakin (Manacus manacus) ...

Text of an automatic nest-recorder

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper By TOMOO ROYAMA of Forest-Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, Japan) VARIOUS DEVICES have been described by various authors for the purpose of registering visiting frequencies by birds to their nests (see Kendeigh, 1952 ; Gibb, 1956). An...

Variation in a population of Yellow Wagtails

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper DURING 1957 and 1958 several greyish-headed yellow wagtails, which appeared to be identical in appearance with Sykes's W a g tail (Motacilla flava beema) of western Siberia, bred at Beddington sewage farm, Hackbridge, Surrey. Since the discovery by Arnold...

Some notes on the Long-eared Owl

01 June 1941 Comments Main paper (Plate i.) does not appear to be a great deal of literature concerning the nocturnal habits of the Long-eared Owl (Asio o. otus), and, to a large extent, this can be understood as observations during the hours of darkness are difficult, and sometimes impo...

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01 June 1941 Comments Notes IT appears from the Handbook of British Birds that no display other than the song-flight has been recorded for the Greenfinch (Chloris ch. Moris). On May 2nd, 1941, my attention was drawn to a shrubbery in Staffordshire frequented by Greenfinches by a no...

Obituary: George Henry Caton Haigh (1860-1941), Maud Doria Haviland (Mrs. H. H. Brindley) (1891-1941).

01 June 1941 Comments Obituaries who died on February n t h , 1941, at the age of eighty, will be best remembered by ornithologists for the persistent and diligent watch he kept for rare migrants at North Cotes in Lincolnshire. His success in this quest was due to his very thorough and ...

Report of the bird-ringing committee: Progress for 1940

01 June 1941 Comments Main paper THIS is the fourth annual report to be issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology.* It covers 1940, the third complete year of working under present arrangements. The series in this form continues the sequence of a...

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Recent reports and News

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Obituaries: Gustav Kramer (1910-1959), James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959), John Hugh Owen (1877-1959)

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: C. Ruff

Text of an automatic nest-recorder

Variation in a population of Yellow Wagtails

Some notes on the Long-eared Owl

Notes

Obituary: George Henry Caton Haigh (1860-1941), Maud Doria Haviland (Mrs. H. H. Brindley) (1891-1941).

Report of the bird-ringing committee: Progress for 1940

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