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01 April 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. Miller Christy, in his very interesting letter in your last issue (p. 91), remarks t h a t I have n o t done justice t o the bird-life on Walthamstow Reservoirs, b u t I must point o u t t h a t m y note was only intended to record t h e nestin...

Reviews

01 April 1963 Comments Reviews Aberdeen University Bird-migration Inquiry: First Interim Report (1909-12). By A. Landsborough Thomson, M.A., M.B.O.U. (Reprinted from the Scottish Naturalist, July, October, November, 1912 ; February, April and June, 1913.) THESE papers give details of t...

Notes

01 April 1963 Comments Notes W E have received a good many schedules relating to these two inquiries (see Vol. VI., pp. 296-311, and Vol. VII, pp. 4-6), but we sincerely hope that many more of our readers will send in particulars. This should now be done without delay, and if the fo...

On Incubation

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper As has previously been shown,* many birds belonging to various Orders commence incubation upon the laying of the first egg. This habit is undoubtedly of the utmost value to many species, saving the eggs from destruction by the numerous animals which devou...

Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Common Eider. As Observed in the Outer Hebrides.

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper this summer (1913) we found a good many pairs of Eiders (Somateria m. mollissima) nesting in the northern portion of a certain large fresh-water loch in the Outer Hebrides, The birds were, however, very shy at the nest, and even with a long-focus lens it ...

On the Breeding-Season and Clutch of the Steganopodes. (Cormorant, Shag, and Gannet.)

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper ONLY three members of this Order figure on the British List, and some of the facts concerning their reproductive habits are sufficiently interesting to deserve a fuller treatment than they have received up to the present in the standard books on the habi...

Letter

01 December 1942 Comments Letters SIRS,--The interesting and unusual behavtour of a Moorhen (Galhnula ch, chloropus) continually remaining in a semi-submerged position (antea, Vol. xxxvi, p. 57) whilst swimming about, and giving the impression of " not being able to come up " is almost ce...

Notes

01 December 1942 Comments Notes a short visit to Lundy in September, 1942, we identified a Lapland Bunting {Cakarius lapponicus) on the high barren area at the north end of the island on September ioth. The species has not previously been met with on Lundy, nor in the county of Devon. ...

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper IN England a hundred years ago the Black Redstart (Phcenicurus o. gibraltariensis) was only a rare and occasional visitor, but by 1871 Newton in Yarrell was able to give it as a regulÃ¤r winter visitor to south-west England and the Isle of Wight, less r...

Comparative Prices of Game and Wildfowl in 1512, 1757, 1807, 1922, 1941 and 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper THE six comparative 'price-lists printed at the end of this article are mainly of ornithological interest in so far as they show the decline in numbers of certain species of British Birds : at the same time it must be pointed out that the terminology empl...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

On Incubation

Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Common Eider. As Observed in the Outer Hebrides.

On the Breeding-Season and Clutch of the Steganopodes. (Cormorant, Shag, and Gannet.)

Letter

Notes

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

Comparative Prices of Game and Wildfowl in 1512, 1757, 1807, 1922, 1941 and 1942

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