Reviews

01 February 1964
Comments Reviews A Study of Bird Song. By Edward A. Armstrong. Oxford University Press, London, 1963. x i v + 3 3 5 pages; 17 plates; 43 figures and 14 tables. 45 s. Far more work has been done on the vocal behaviour of birds than of all other animals combined. Much of it...
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Notes

01 February 1964
Comments Notes Unusual numbers of sea-birds at Teesmouth in August 1962.--In August 1962 huge concentrations of Sprats Clupea sprattus appeared in the bay and estuary of the River Tees, on the border of Co. Durham and Yorkshire. Many of the fish entering the mouth of th...
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Oystercatchers and Mussels

01 February 1964
Comments Main paper I N T H E S U M M E R O F 1961, on the Drigg Peninsula near Ravenglass, Cumberland, a pair of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostrakgus made their nest on a relatively bare sandy area about eight yards square and surrounded by a dense growth of nettles Urtica s...
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Recent reports

01 February 1964
Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This brief summary covers mid-November 1963 to early January 1964 and thus follows on after the one in the January issue (Brit. Birds, 57: 43-48). Numbers of Redwings Turdus iliacus and Fiel...
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Request for Information

01 February 1964
Comments Editorials Crossbills in 1963.--A review of the occurrences of Crossbills Loxia curvirostra in Great Britain and Ireland in 1963 is being prepared by Peter Davis, and readers are asked to let him have, as soon as possible, any records other than those which have alr...
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News and Comments

01 February 1964
Comments News and comment Joint committees on toxic chemicals.--The Association of British Manufacturers of Agricultural Chemicals has joined with five bodies concerned with natural history to set up two working committees, one to study the technical aspects of problems of farm ch...
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Letters

01 February 1964
Comments Letters 'Industrial' discoloration of House Sparrows Sirs,--I was rather interested in Ian Woodward's suggestion (Brit. Birds, 56: 470-471), following my note on 'industrial' discoloration of House Sparrows Passer domestkus {Brit. Birds, 56: 296-297), that white ...
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Reviews

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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