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A statistical examination of the Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access of the great flood of rarities from east Sussex and west Kent during the first two decades of this century, from the internal evidence presented by the statistical aspects of the records themselves. The consequences of various hypotheses which assume t...

Editorial: Setting the record straight

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access D E P A R T I N G F R O M our normal pattern, we are devoting the whole of this much enlarged issue of British Birds to a single main subject, known already to some, and soon to be familiar to many, as the case of the Hastings Rarities. Half a century ...

The Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access CONTENTS Introduction Definition of the Hastings Rarities Peculiarities of the pattern Comparison with current experience Observers and collectors Prices and collections Possibilities of cool deception Publication and correspondenceO F T H E 520 F O E ...

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed: XV. The Bar-tailed Godwit

01 July 1948 Comments Main paper (Plates 23-30). I T is safe to claim that the series-of photographs of the Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa I. lapponica) which we are now able t o publish is quite unique, showing the birds, as it does, on their remote breeding-ground in Lapland, with nest and ...

British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

01 July 1948 Comments Main paper Recovered. Beauly 21.8.39 (Inverness) 24.9.38 Coldstream (Berwick) 20.11.39 Ditto 24.9.38 Dundrennan 20.1,40 (Kirkcudbr.) Ditto 23.8,41 Sloothby (Lines.) 5.12.45 Ditto 21.8.37 Cjueenborough 11.10.39 (Kent) Ditto "Â·9-37 Pulborough 24.12.39 (Sussex) Ditt...

The Larder of the Red-Backed Shrike

01 July 1948 Comments Main paper BECAUSE of the habit of pinning up spare food on thorns the Red-backed Shrike (Lanius c. collurio) was far better known in Essex, when I lived there, as the Larder Bird. Unfortunately it has become so scarce there that few of the present generation have a...

Vital Statistics of the Mochrum Cormorant Colony

01 July 1948 Comments Main paper T H E breeding-colony of Cormorants (Phalacrocorax c. carbo) to which this paper refers is situated on low rocky islands in the Castle Loch in the parish of Mochrum, Wigtownshire. The birds have bred there probably for a very long time. They were there in...

Letters

01 July 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,---In an article on this subject (antea Vol. xl, pp. 62-4) A. Whitaker cites as examples of abnormality two diving descents by Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) and Jackdaws (C, monedula spermologus) from an estimated height of 600-700 feet to a freshly p...

Reviews

01 July 1948 Comments Reviews The Scottish Naturalist, Vol. Ix, No. i, April, 1948. Edited by Prof. V. C. Wynne-Edwards and Dr. J. W. Campbell. It is with real pleasure that we welcome the re-appearance of this old established and excellent journal under the able editorship of Prof. V...

Notes

01 July 1948 Comments Notes DURING the spring of 1947 I saw what certainly appeared to be bigamous behaviour by a male Rook (Corvus f. frugilegus) Unfortunately, the observations were rather disjointed, a continuous watch not being possible. On March 14th a well-advanced nest was s...

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