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Crossbills in Sweden in 1953

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

01 September 1959 Comments Notes with Mackerel shoals.--During- the months of July, August and September, Mackerel (Scomber scomber) habitually enter the Village Bay of Hirta, St, Kilda, in the late afternoon and evening. These shoals are often pursued by Grey Seals (Halichoerus gryphus)...

Fulmars in the North Atlantic in the summers of 1956 and 1958

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper IN 1956 WE MADE two crossings of the North Atlantic on the small Royal Netherlands ship "Groote Beer", from Montreal to Southampton in June, and back in September. We kept records of all the birds we saw, but the following notes, compiled from half-hourly...

The September drift-movements of 1956 and 1958.Part 1ÑGeneral Summary and Weather Conditions

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper were extensive drift-arrivals of migratory birds on the east coast of Britain. These were made up almost entirely of species which are summer-visitors to Europe and widely distributed in Scandinavia and the countries surrounding: the Baltic Sea. As might ...

The food of nestling Rooks near Oxford

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper frugilegus) carried out while I was holding a Nature Conservancy Post-Graduate Studentship at the Edward Grey Institute, Oxford, in 1952 and 1953. All four rookeries concerned were within 10 miles of Oxford and were on rather similar farming land. T h e f...

Observations on the Fulmar in Spitsbergen

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper T H E WRITERS spent the period 23rd July-i8th August 1957 observing- a colony of Atlantic Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) on the south-east shore of Tempelfiord, W e s t Spitsbergen, adjacent to the east side of the mouth of Sassendalen. Although the Fulmar ...

Letters

01 September 1959 Comments Letters K I L D A W R E N S ON STAC AN A R M I N SIRS,--Following- the publication of the recent letters by the Rev. E. A. Armstrong and Mr. Kenneth Williamson on the St. Kilda W r e n (Troglodytes t. hirtensis) (antea, pp. 136-138), we feel that the following i...

Reviews

01 September 1959 Comments Reviews Chapman & Hall, London, 1959). xi + 624 p a g e s ; many text illustrations. 94s. T H E DISTINGUISHED senior author unfortunately did not live to see the completion of this useful work of reference. It is a well produced and suitably illustrated volume, o...

Obituary: Stuart Smith, D.Sc, Ph.D. (1906-1963)

01 October 1955 Comments Obituaries T H E U N T I M E L Y D E A T H of Dr. Stuart Smith on j t h August, 1963 as a result of unexpected complications following an operation which it had been anticipated would be a comparatively minor one, has deprived British ornithology of one of its most ...

Recent reports

01 October 1955 Comments News and comment [These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] This summary is mainly concerned with the period from 21st July to 10th September. Highlights included a heavy passage of northern waders, a striking movement of Black Terns, the now annual ...

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