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Letters

01 August 1977 Comments Letters Melanistic Grey Heron Bryan L. Sage (in litt.) has confirmed that, when making his recent comment (Brit. Birds 70: 76), he had overlooked my record of a melanistic Grey Heron Ardea cinerea at Little Tring Reservoir, Tring, Hertfordshire, on 29th S... Read More

Obituaries: Norman Frederick Ticehurst

01 September 1970 Comments Main paper It is now more than a year since Dr Norman Ticehurst passed away in a nursing home at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, on 5 th December 1969, at the great age of 96 years. He had had such a long life that none of his contemporaries remained and there are few p... Read More

Reviews

01 March 1961 Comments Reviews Atlas of European Birds. By K. H . Voous. N e l s o n , London, i960. 284 pages; 419 maps and 355 photographs. 70s. One of the post-war developments in ornithology has been the attention given to bird distribution. There has been a growing realisation of ... Read More

Notes

01 December 1960 Comments Notes Aggressive behaviour of Barrow's Goldeneye with young.-- Although Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) does not figure on the British and Irish list, the following notes may be of interest as an instance of an aggressive attitude during the breeding s... Read More