Recent reports and News

01 June 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded a* authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers* names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Letters

01 June 1959 Comments Letters FEEDING METHODS O F LONG-TAILED LARGE F O O D TITS WITH S I R S , -- I was interested to read Mrs. J. Hall-Craggs's description, together with Mr. Derek Goodwin's comments, of Long-tailed Tits (Aegithalos candatus) eating largish morsels of food whilst ha...
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Notes

01 June 1959 Comments Notes residence in Shetland we took counts about once a week for two years of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) on an area of cliffs in southwest Mainland. The counts are given in full and discussed in The Fulmar (1952) by James Fisher (pp. 347 and 482-488). These F...
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Editorial

01 June 1959 Comments Editorials FIFTY YEARS AGO our issue of i s t June 1909 began with an Editorial announcing " w i t h great satifaction" the names of two "excellent ornithologists" who would thenceforth assist in the task of editing the magazine. One of these was Dr. Norman F . Tice...
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Letters

01 March 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--We were interested to read Mr. Nelder's letter in your November, 1952, number (antea, vol. xlv, p. 430) and feel we should like to dispel any idea that possible bias in the collection of records is not already fully appreciated by those responsible...
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Reviews

01 March 1953 Comments Reviews The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1951. The first seven pages of this report are occupied by an account of the various concerted inquiries by the Society the utility of which it is not possible to evaluate from a single years' work. This must be l...
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