Reviews

01 July 1962
Comments Reviews Photographing Garden Birds. By C. H. S. Tupholme. Faber, London, 1962. 127 pages; 4 colour and 6 monochrome photographs. 18s. Some excellent suggestions are given on methods of attracting wild birds into the garden by establishing various trees, shrubs an...
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Notes

01 July 1962
Comments Notes Water Rail killing Little Stint and Eel.--With reference to the recent notes on Water Rails (Rallus aquaticus) killing a Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) and other small Passerines {Brit. Birds, 55: 132-133 and 165), I should like to record that on 4th Sept...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 November 1939
Comments Main paper Oundle (Northants), 12.1.39 [62 m. W.]. Great Ouse Estuary (Nor folk), 21.1.39 [25 m. W.]. Saltmills (Wexford), 5.2.39. Kalinin, West Russia, 15.9.38 [56°52'N., 36°E.]. Mouth of R. Welland (Lines), 24.12.38 [76 m. NW.].Saltash (Cornwall), 12.1.39 [9...
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Letter

01 November 1939
Comments Letters SIRS,--The extension of the breeding range of the Lapwing {Vanellus vanellus) to Fokstumyren referred to in my previous letter (antea, p. 118) is certainly recent. Neither H. Tho. L. Schaanning in 1917 nor H. L. Ldvenskiold in 1929 and 1930 found the bird...
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Reviews

01 November 1939
Comments Reviews Report of Marlborough College Natural History Society, 1938. T H E number of bird-observers this year is low, b u t we may hope t h a t this is only a temporary fluctuation. A very late Willow-Warbler is recorded for November oth, a Greenshank was seen in...
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