Reviews

01 September 1952 Comments Reviews The Sea Around Us. By Rachel L. Carson (Staples, 1951). 12s. 6d. I t is a remarkable indication of t h e growth of interest in the oceans t h a t this scientific account of them should have run through three impressions within the month of publication. It...
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Notes

01 September 1952 Comments Notes Some notes on the behaviour of House-Sparrows.--These notes (which are additional to those already published, antea, vol. xliv, pp. 18-19 > 369-372) summarize intermittent observations on HouseSparrows (Passer domesticus) in Britain (work in progress) an...
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Patterns of spring migration

01 September 1952 Comments Main paper IN 1950 and again in 1951 the British Bird Observatories have exchanged information about the occurrences of selected species of birds. A study of this collated information appears to throw some light on the pattern of migration to and through the British...
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Letters

01 September 1952 Comments Letters ---A sub-committee of t h e Natural History Section of the Wilts Archaelogical and Natural History Society has been formed to prepare a Check-List of Wiltshire Birds. I t would be grateful for any information your readers may have about collections of stu...
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Notes

01 June 1939 Comments Notes THE recent note about Blackbirds (Turius m. merula) feeding on small fish (antea, Vol. XXXII, p. 397) recalls to me that six or seven years ago I watched a pair take repeatedly small tadpoles from a shallow bay of the Little Exe, above Dulverton. Both bir...
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Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...
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