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01 October 1974 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records A Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris was present in the gannetry on Herrnaness, Unst (Shetland), throughout the summer. Following the June report of a Fulmar Fulmarus glaci...

News and comment

01 October 1974 Comments News and comment Growth of the British and Irish list The number of full species admitted to the British and Irish list during the 17 decades which have elapsed since 1800 has varied from as few as four to as many as 27 per decade, the average being 13; Kenneth...

Letters

01 October 1974 Comments Letters ...

Notes

01 October 1974 Comments Notes Egg-laying by the Great Crested Grebe Although the behaviour of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus has been intensively studied, many questions are still open. One such question is how Great Crested Grebes lay their eggs, and whether they exhibit ...

Adaptations in the reproductive biology of the Great Crested Grebe

01 October 1974 Comments Main paper The Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus shows many striking and puzzling features in its reproductive biology, these being the subject of the present paper which is primarily concerned with adaptive aspects. My own studies on this species, which inv...

Allen's Gallinule in Britain and the Palearctic

01 October 1974 Comments Main paper Allen's Gallinule Porphyrula alleni, a tropical African bird, has but once been obtained in Britain: off the Suffolk coast in January 1902. The species was not then admitted to the British and Irish list; there was some incredulity at the concept of a ...

Letters

01 February 1970 Comments Letters The Hastings Rarities I was interested in the recent revival of the controversy concerning the Hastings Rarities {Brit. Birds, 62: 364381). In 1939 a friend of mine in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company succeeded in getting for me some specimens of the geese t...

Reviews

01 February 1970 Comments Reviews Book of British Birds. Edited by R. S. R. Fitter. Drive Publications for the Reader's Digest Association and the Automobile Association, London, 1969. 472 pages, numerous illustrations (mostly in colour), diagrams and maps. 75 s. The combined publishing v...

Notes

01 February 1970 Comments Notes New species of subcutaneous mite in Shags and Cormorants In the course of post-mortem examinations of Shags Pbalacrocorax aristotelis and Cormorants P. carbo from the Fame Islands, Northumberland, we found many carcasses infested with a subcutaneous mite ...

Mediterranean Gulls nesting in Hampshire

01 February 1970 Comments Main paper The following events took place in a colony of gulls and terns at the mouth of the Beaulieu River in Hampshire. This colony has been described elsewhere (Taverner 1965) and so all that need be repeated here is an outline of its main features. The centre i...

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July reports

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Notes

Adaptations in the reproductive biology of the Great Crested Grebe

Allen's Gallinule in Britain and the Palearctic

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Mediterranean Gulls nesting in Hampshire

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