Reviews

01 April 1966
Comments Reviews Bird Migration: the Biology and Physics of Orientation Behaviour. By Donald R. Griffin. Science Study Series, N o . 32. Heinemann, London, 1965. x v + 1 8 0 pages; 27 text-figures. 12s. 6d. (paperback 8s. 6d.). The author's interests are clearly better re...
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Notes

01 April 1966
Comments Notes Weasel killing Kestrel.--I was interested in Mrs. Sybil Selwyn's observation of a Kestrel Falco tinnunculus which caught a Weasel Mustek nivalis and carried it up into the air, but then let it go {Brit. Birds, 59: 39). On Z7th December 1930 I was watching...
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News and comment

01 April 1966
Comments News and comment An ornithological atlas ?---The possibilities of undertaking an ornithological atlas of the British Isles, along the lines of the Botanical Society of the British Isles's Atlas of the British Flora, are at present being explored by the British Trust for O...
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Letters

01 April 1966
Comments Letters The spread of potato-eating i n Whooper Swans Sirs,--A tendency for flocks of up to 40 Whooper Swans Cygnus cygnus to feed inland is well attested in early European literature; and in Scotland these swans, like geese, occasionally fly some miles from wate...
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Notes

01 November 1963
Comments Notes IT has long been known that, in the Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) the mandibles cross indifferently on either side in different individuals. Recently, however, for a special purpose, I desired to ascertain whether or not individuals having the man...
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A Student of Gulls.

01 November 1963
Comments Main paper THAT Ornithology sustained a heavy potential loss by the death of Ewen Kennedy, in 1909, a t the early age of twenty-eight, is evident by a perusal of his notes, put together in beautiful form* by the loving hand of his sister, Mrs. Maedonald. Beyond a ch...
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