Recent Reports and News

01 August 1960
Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to he reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Reviews

01 August 1960
Comments Reviews The Bird in the Hand. By R. K. Cornwallis and A. E. Smith. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, i960. 69 pages. 4s. (Obtainable from the B.T.O., 2 King Edward Street, Oxford, at 4s. 6d. including postage.) At last the bird-ringer has available the type ...
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Notes

01 August 1960
Comments Notes Attempted coition by Little Stints on autumn passage.--At Radipole Lake, Weymouth, Dorset, on 4th October 1957, I became very interested in the behaviour of two Little Stints (Calidris minutd). One was making short runs or low level flights across a shall...
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Letters

01 January 1938
Comments Letters SIRS,---Miss Hibbert-Ware (Little Owl Inquiry, antea, pp. 215-216) prefaces her remarks on Little Owls 011 Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, with the w o r d s : " T h e following incident seems, however, t o contradict these conclusions [that t h e Little ...
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Reviews

01 January 1938
Comments Reviews Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow. Vol. I. A Population Study of the Song Sparrow. By Margaret M. Nice. Transactions of the Linnean Society of New York, IV : April 1937. 2 47PP- 3 plates, 18 charts, 33 tables. (American Museum of Natural His...
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Notes

01 January 1938
Comments Notes As there is apparently no previous record for the Outer Hebrides, it may be of interest to report that a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) was killed in North Uist on October 27th, 1937, and that I saw another at Newton Lodge, North Uist, on No...
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