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01 August 1936 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Rev. J. M. McWilliam in his letter on the above (antea, p . 56) remarks in his closing paragraph t h a t he " cannot remember seeing any notes on t h e effect of the angle of sunlight on t h e apparent colour of birds." We would refer Mm to our...

Letter

01 July 1936 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have often been struck by the apparent differences in colour of Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the Clyde. On May gth, 1936, a t 9.30 a.m. (summer time) I watched half a dozen of these Gulls sitting on a railing on Dunoon pier within a few yar...

An Index of Heron Population

01 April 1935 Comments Main paper WHEN the " British Birds Census of Heronries Report " was published in 1929 it was recommended that another complete census of British heronries should be taken not later than about 1940, if the full advantages of the 1928 Census were to be reaped. On the...

Letters

01 September 1934 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference to the extremely interesting article by Lieut.Col. and Mrs. B. H . Ryves on the breeding-habits of the Corn-Bunting as observed in north Cornwall (Vol. X X V I I I . , pp. 2-26) and Mr. John Walpole-Bond's detailed study of the Susse...

Great and Lesser Black-backed Gulls in North Wales

01 July 1933 Comments Main paper I N their lengthy and elaborate paper on numerical fluctuations of the Great Black-backed Gull, Larus marinus (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1933, pp. 191-209), Messrs. T. H. Harrisson and H. C. Hurrell suggest t h a t Anglesey has been an important centre of dispersa...

INCUBATION-PERIODS OF LESSER AND GREAT BLACK-BACKED AND HERRING-GULLS

01 November 1932 Comments ...

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE "BRITISH BIRDS" CENSUS OF HERONRIES

01 June 1932 Comments ...

Notes

01 January 1932 Comments Notes SOME Waxwings (Bombycilla ^arrulus) have reached Norfolk during the last few weeks. On November 3rd, 1931, one was picked up alive at Kelling, under telegraph wires, by the local police constable, but it died and was unfortunately taken by a cat. Some wi...

Supplementary notes on the "British Birds" Census of Heronries

01 November 1931 Comments Main paper has been a disappointing falling-off in the number of records received in connection with the Census of Heronries since the publication of the first Supplementary Report in May, 1930 (antea, Vol. XXIII., pp. 324-337). No doubt diversion of attention by th...

Notes

01 August 1931 Comments Notes ON June 2nd, 1931, I was able to identify an Ortolan Bunting (Emberiza hortulana) on Skokholm. As it was in an exhausted state I was able to examine it from within three yards, as it rested in a niche of my garden wall. The small, reddisri bill was unmis...