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01 May 1971 Comments Letters Feather wear in Guillemots In view of R. J. Kennedy's note on feather wear in Guillemots Uria aalge (Brit. Birds, 63: 34-36) and the follow-up in this issue (pages 229-230), I should like to point out that a good many of the auks involved in the disaster ...

Notes

01 May 1971 Comments Notes Display-flight of Sparrowhawks I was interested in the note by R. A. Hume and P. L. Garvey on the possible display-flight of four Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus on 25th January 1970 (Brit Birds, 63: 132). The unusual features were the number involved and th...

Obituary - James Maxwell McConnell Fisher, MA (1912-1970)

01 May 1971 Comments Main paper James Fisher lost his life in a motor accident at Hendon on 25 th September 1970. Born on 3rd September 1912, he had just passed his 5 8th birthday and, if a man can reasonably look forward to the traditional three score and ten, he was denied at least a ...

Studies of less familiar birds 165: Serin

01 May 1971 Comments Main paper Plates 29-34 Compared with its well-known relative, the Canary Serinus canaria, of the Canary Islands, Azores and Madeira, the Serin S. serinus is smaller and not so brightly coloured. In many ways it bears more resemblance to the Siskin Carduelis spinus ...

Observations on a resident population of Stonechats in Jersey

01 May 1971 Comments Main paper Between 1950 and 1970 I studied a population of Stonechats Saxicola torquata in the area of St Ouen's Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands. In the course of this, nearly 1,000 individuals of all ages were ringed and, between 1951 and 1965, 660 of them were also c...

Recent reports

01 May 1971 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The last summary (Brit, Birds, 64: 135-136) covered the rarer species and most of the unseasonal summer visitors in December 1970 and January 1971. This one deals with the remaining reports in...

News and Comment

01 May 1971 Comments News and comment Birds of Estuaries Enquiry This joint project of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was outlined in 'News and comment' last year (Brit. Birds, 63: 183). The first report of the pilot survey, covering the p...

Letters

01 February 1948 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t seems a n opportune moment for making a plea t h a t t h e scope of the British Trust Ringing Scheme should be widened by making rings available for use outside t h e British Islands. While we fully appreciate the organizational a n d sup...

Reviews

01 February 1948 Comments Reviews Aristocrats'' of the Air. By Captain C. W. R. Knight. (Williams and Norgate, London, 1946). 30s. od. The first edition of this eminently readable book was first published in 1935, but has been out of print for nearly twenty years. This, the second edition...

Notes

01 February 1948 Comments Notes DURING the years 1946 and 1947 I have noticed several species singing outside what appears to be their normal song-period as defined in The Handbook charts. Some of these variations are considerable, others less so. The particulars are as follows :-- NUT...

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