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01 September 1961 Comments Reviews The Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh. By H . Albert Hochbaum. Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, U.S.A., 1959 (second edition). 207 pages; 18 photographs. $4.50. Originally published towards the end of the 1939-45 war, this was the first of a series of authorita...

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01 September 1961 Comments Notes Manx Shearwater d i g g i n g by daylight.--At about 2.30 p.m. on 15th May 1961, I was walking in bright sunlight on a sloping cliff on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, when I heard a Manx Shearwater (Procellaria puffinus) calling from its burrow. Kneeling down w...

Mallard feeding from dead birds

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper from dead birds. The Birds of the 'London Area since ipoo (1957, p . 133) mentions several observations of Mallard {Anas platyrhynchos) seizing and drowning House Sparrows {Passer domesticus) and on at least two occasions the victims were swallowed {Royal...

Dowitchers in Great Britain and Ireland

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper T H E P A P E R BY P I T E L K A (1961) in this issue of British Birds shows that both the Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) and the Short-billed Dowitcher (L. griseus) have occurred in the British Isles. At the request of the editors, I am ...

Long-billed and Short-billed Dowitcher specimens in the British Museum

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper "Red-breasted Snipe" have been assigned to the one species, ~Limnodromus griseus, recognised by American ornithologists (see A.O.U. Check-list 1931; Peters 1934). However, the excellent work of Rowan (1932) first called attention to evidence that there we...

The relationship between foot-movements and feeding in shore birds

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper I S H O U L D L I K E to make some observations which may serve to cast a different light upon the subject of foot-movements in shore birds, since in the literature there is a tendency to associate this behaviour with the luring of worms to the surface of...

Reviews

01 April 1941 Comments Reviews Lundy : Isle of Puffins. By Richard Perry. (Lindsay Drummond.) With 37 photographs by Alan Richardson. 12s. 6d. net. T H I S book is the result of observation during the five summer months of 1939 which Mr. Perry spent on Lundy, off the N. Devon coast. It...

Notes

01 April 1941 Comments Notes THE recoveries of ringed Redwings (Turdus musicus), though still few, are of sufficient interest to bring together in a separate note. No recovery of a ringed Redwing was reported until early in 1938, although up to that time 576 had been marked. Then tw...

Obituary: Claud Buchanan Ticehurst (1881-1941)

01 April 1941 Comments Obituaries CLAUD BUCHANAN TICEHURST (1881-1941) W E deeply regret to announce the death of Dr. Claud Buchanan Ticehurst, of Saxon House, Appledore, Kent, on February 17th, 1941, after a short illness. He was the third son of August Rowland Ticehurst, V.D., J.P., M....

Birds of Inner London

01 April 1941 Comments Main paper THESE notes for 1940 are unavoidably incomplete owing to many observers being occupied in National Service. Moreover, toward the end of the year the field of observation was much restricted for various reasons. During 1940 there was one addition to the li...

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Reviews

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Mallard feeding from dead birds

Dowitchers in Great Britain and Ireland

Long-billed and Short-billed Dowitcher specimens in the British Museum

The relationship between foot-movements and feeding in shore birds

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: Claud Buchanan Ticehurst (1881-1941)

Birds of Inner London

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