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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., ...

Notes

01 September 1958 Comments Notes Little Shearwater in Cheshire.--On ioth May 1958 a living bird was picked up by school-children in a field near Stockport, Cheshire, and eventually came into the hands of one of us (C.G.B.) from Inspector Brooks of the R . S . P . C . A . The bird was not...

Obituary: William Stanley Cowin (1907-1958)

01 September 1958 Comments Obituaries H i s MANY FRIENDS and correspondents throughout the United Kingdom will learn with regret of the sudden death of W . S. (Will) Cowin, of Douglas, Isle of Man, on 29th June 1958, a t the early a g e of fifty. Born in Douglas on 17th August 1907, Will Cowi...

Migrant land-birds in the Western Approaches

01 September 1958 Comments Main paper the last three weeks of October, the first-named author served with the scientific staff of " W e a t h e r Observer", a weather-ship of the Marine Branch, Meteorological Office (Air Ministry), at station " K i l o " in latitude 45Â°N. and longitude i 6...

An Ecological sketch of the Camargue

01 September 1958 Comments Main paper T H E RHONE, creator of the Camargue, is born among glaciers and continues as a mountain torrent in its upper reaches, yet long before it touches the Camargue it becomes merely a large gentlyflowing river. Lyons, 310 kilometres from its mouth, is only 169...

Recent reports and news

01 September 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Reviews

01 September 1958 Comments Reviews By N . TINBERGEN. {Country Life, London, 1958). 280 p a g e s ; illustrated. 35s. IN HIS PREFACE, D r . Tinbergen writes that he long hesitated about writing this semi-autobiographical book, and repeatedly in the main text he seems to find it necessary t...

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Letters

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Notes

Erythrism in the Eggs of British Birds.

Notes

Obituary: William Stanley Cowin (1907-1958)

Migrant land-birds in the Western Approaches

An Ecological sketch of the Camargue

Recent reports and news

Reviews

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