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01 September 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to t h e article on " The Breeding-habits of t h e Dartford Warbler," and t o t h e statement on page 218, I have never seen a Dartford Warbler's nest in England, a n d know nothing of their habits in this country. I n t h e...

Reviews

01 September 1963 Comments Reviews British Diving Ducks. By J. G. Millais, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Vol. II. Seventeen coloured and twenty-five uneoloured plates. Longmans. In two volumes, £12 12s. net. IN our last volume (pp. 365-70) we gave an extended notice of the fisst part of Mr. Mill...

Notes

01 September 1963 Comments Notes A YOUNG drake Gadwall {Anas strepera) was shot on J a n u a r y 14th, 1913, a t Stretton. I saw t w o K n o t s (Canutus canutus) on October 12th, 1913, a t Bellfields Reservoir. I watched t h e m for some time through powerful glasses, a n d when one fle...

Erythrism in the Eggs of British Birds.

01 September 1963 Comments Main paper ALTHOUGH many scattered notes on this subject may be found in the various ornithological journals, very little has hitherto been done to collect these separate records; and beyond a short note by Adolf Kricheldorff in the Zeitschrift fur Oologie, XIII., ...

Letters

01 March 1963 Comments Letters SIES,--Mr. Glegg's note in your current number (Vol. VII., p. 56) concerning the nest of this species which he found beside one of the reservoirs a t Walthamstow on J u n e 11th, hardly does full justice to the extraordinary wealth of bird-life to be seen...

Notes

01 March 1963 Comments Notes IT is gratifying to see Mr. C. S. Meares's note on th Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) breeding in Shropshire an Norfolk (British Birds, Vol. VI., p. 371), and to find that i has also bred in Surrey (Countryside, Vol. V., p. 387). Ther can be no doubt as...

The Sequence of Plumages of the Common Eider

01 March 1963 Comments Main paper accounts have appeared in the works of naturalists on the subject of the plumage of the male and female Eider (Somateria m. mollissima) and the age at which the sexes arrive at maturity. In nearly all of these there is much guesswork owing to the small se...

Obituary: The Late Philip Lutley Sclater

01 March 1963 Comments Obituaries W E greatly regret to announce the death, on June 27th, 1913, as the result of a carriage accident, of Philip Lutley Sclater, D.Sc, F.R.S., at the age of eightythree years. The loss of so eminent an ornithologist will be deeply felt by all bird-lovers, an...

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Notes

Erythrism in the Eggs of British Birds.

Letters

Notes

The Sequence of Plumages of the Common Eider

Obituary: The Late Philip Lutley Sclater

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