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01 July 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--At a meeting held in Aberdaron on March 7th, 1953, a committee was formed to establish a permanent observatory on the island of Bardsey. The position of the Island, at the very tip of the Lleyn Peninsula, makes it an ideal site for the study of bir...

Notice and Requests for Information

01 July 1953 Comments Editorials Ornithological Congress, presided over by Sir Landsborough Thomson, London, will be held in Basle, Switzerland, from May 29th to June 5th, 1954. During the week of the Congress, 5 days will be devoted to meetings and 2 to excursions. Before and after the ...

Reviews

01 July 1953 Comments Reviews Yorkshire Birds. By Ralph Chislett. (A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., 1953). 25s. Mr. Chislett lists among his qualifications for this work a professional training as a chartered accountant, and although he notes sadly that the application to bird records of effect...

Notes

01 July 1953 Comments Notes Birds with abnormal bills.--With reference to previous notes on this subject (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 60, 349-50; vol. xlv, p. 402), we have received several more records of bill deformities and the following are worth quoting :OYSTERCATCHER (Hcetnatopus os...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. L. Little Egret

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 36-41) LITTLE EGRETS (Egretta garzetta) had been recorded in the British Isles only on some twelve occasions before 1952 when, however (see p p . 255-258), the species w a s observed in four counties-- Cornwall (March 2nd-i7th), Norfolk (May 7 t h...

The migrations of the Lesser Black-backed Gull

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper T H E following- report covers the summer extension of an Enquiry into the status of the Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) which was opened in November, 1949. Owing- to the promising response to the announcement of this enquiry by the British Trust ...

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper FOUR previous papers have appeared in British Birds giving the results of field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit (Parus palustris), based on a study of colour-ringed and some unringed individuals in a 50-acre tract of W e s t Wood, Bagley, N. ...

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...

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...

Notes on the courtship display of Gulls

01 September 1952 Comments Main paper The Handbook deals in considerable detail with the display of the Herring-Gull (Larus argentatus) quoting the observations of Goethe, Portielje, and Darling. The notes on Common Gull (L. canus) and Great Black-backed Gull (L. marinus) refer mainly to the ...

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Letters

Notice and Requests for Information

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. L. Little Egret

The migrations of the Lesser Black-backed Gull

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

Reviews

Notes

Notes on the courtship display of Gulls

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