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01 October 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to Mr. Masefield's note (antea, p . 270), fleas m a y generally b e found in T i t ' s nests in t h e winter, a n d during t h e first few warm days in spring m a y be seen waiting in numbers outside t h e hole ready to j u ...

Notes

01 October 1963 Comments Notes ON January 21st, 1914, I was shown a couple of very fine Pine-Grosbeaks (Pinicola e. enucleator) that had been, obtained the previous day at Brigbtling, Sussex. They were both males, and one was of a beautiful rosy colour and of a far more gaudy tint tha...

Obituary: The Late G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

01 October 1963 Comments Obituaries born 1871, B.A. Cambridge 1894 (first-class in the Natural Science Tripos in the same list with his friend Dr. E. A. Wilson), Major oth (Militia) Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, in which he served during the South African war, Hon. Captain in the Army, P.Z...

Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire

01 October 1963 Comments Main paper SINCE the appearance of the Rev, A. C. Smith's Birds of Wiltshire in 1887 many new county records have naturally occurred. I now propose to give the more interesting of those I have collected, some of which have heen published before, but many of which ar...

The Courtship of the Common Gull.

01 October 1963 Comments Main paper O N May 9th, 1913, I found a colony of about twenty pairs of Common Gulls (Larus c. camts) nesting on a small island in a freshwater loch in the Outer Hebrides. The islet was occupied also by about the same number of pairs of Black-headed Gulls (Larus rid...

Recent reports and News

01 June 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded a* 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...

Letters

01 June 1959 Comments Letters FEEDING METHODS O F LONG-TAILED LARGE F O O D TITS WITH S I R S , -- I was interested to read Mrs. J. Hall-Craggs's description, together with Mr. Derek Goodwin's comments, of Long-tailed Tits (Aegithalos candatus) eating largish morsels of food whilst ha...

Notes

01 June 1959 Comments Notes residence in Shetland we took counts about once a week for two years of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) on an area of cliffs in southwest Mainland. The counts are given in full and discussed in The Fulmar (1952) by James Fisher (pp. 347 and 482-488). These F...

The plumage and leg colour of the Kittiwake and comments on the non-breeding population

01 June 1959 Comments Main paper IT IS an advantage in ecological studies to be able to divide a population into age groups or into mature and immature stages In the Laridae (gulls and terns), where the majority of species have a distinctive " i m m a t u r e " plumage, it has been assum...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCVIII. Squacco Heron

01 June 1959 Comments Main paper T H E HERONS AND BITTERNS (Ardeidae) a r e a world-wide family of some fifty-nine species, and all b u t four of the fifteen in the Palaearctic have extensive breeding ranges that take them much or all of the way across Asia and Europe, while ten of these...

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Letters

Notes

Obituary: The Late G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire

The Courtship of the Common Gull.

Recent reports and News

Letters

Notes

The plumage and leg colour of the Kittiwake and comments on the non-breeding population

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCVIII. Squacco Heron

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