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01 February 1961 Comments Reviews Vara Faglar i Norden (Our Birds in the North). Second edition edited by Kai Curry-LindaM (Swedish text). Bokforlaget Natur och Cultur, Stockholm, 1959 and i960. Volumes I and II, 1022 pages; coloured and black-and-white plates, and maps, (Four volumes: Sw...

Notes

01 February 1961 Comments Notes Ring-necked Duck in Co. Armagh.--A male Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) stayed on the lake in the Public Park, Lurgan, Co. Armagh, from 20th March till 1st May i960 and was seen on many occasions by various observers. It then disappeared, but returned ...

Some photographic studies of the Nightjar

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper I N G E N E R A L W E TRY to publish photographs for their biological interest or because they illustrate points of identification, rather than for their aesthetic value. This aim is always borne in mind in the selection and presentation of the photograph...

An interpretation of variation in the dark-headed forms of the Yellow Wagtail

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper variation to be seen in the Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava). T h e chief mistake made by most investigators has been that of splitting the group into too many forms on the basis of too few specimens, the most flagrant example of this being in the monogra...

The " Lesser Scaup " problem

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper observations in Britain of ducks that were thought to be Lesser Scaups (Aythya affinis), a North American species not recorded in Europe. This note is based on a detailed examination of one of these --that first seen at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, in Dec...

Letters

01 February 1961 Comments Letters The Len Howard Appeal Sirs--All readers of Miss Len Howard's books Birds as Individuals and Living with Birds have been distressed to learn that her life's work is threatened by building on the land next to her garden sanctuary. For twenty-one years Miss ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. LIII. Tawny Pipit

01 December 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 68-71) T H E Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris) is usually looked upon in Britain with greater interest than are the other rarer pipits. Possibly this is because it bred in Sussex on one or two occasions at the beginning of the present century or per...

Report from Bird Observatories, 1952

01 December 1953 Comments Main paper ONCE again we are glad to include a series of reports from the Bird Observatories. During 1952, one new Observatory--at Dungeness in Kent--was opened, thus bringing to eleven the total engaged in this kind of work, a total that has been further increased ...

Errata

01 December 1953 Comments Editorials VOL. XLVI. Line 13 from bottom, for "Savidge" read "Savage". Line 12 from bottom, for "extirpation" read "extirpation". Line 27 from bottom, for "cinerea" read "brachydactyla". Line 19, for "the first record" read "the second record". Line 17, for " E x e...

Letter

01 December 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--Beginning with 1953 an annual report for the county of Norfolk is to be published jointly by the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society and the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust and I would be grateful if any of your readers who have records of observat...

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