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01 October 1950 Comments Letters --I am engaged in investigating t h e ringing records of Blue Tits. Amongst the known causes of death it is astonishing to find that the mousetrap is a principal one. I t may be necessary to place r a t and mouse traps in gardens, b u t I suggest that the...

Notes

01 October 1950 Comments Notes WITH reference to the note (antea, p. 54) on this topic, in June, 1949, an Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura) made repeated stoops at my companion, Dr. H. K. Whitehouse, while he was standing by the bank of the river in Hvalfjordur a few yards from our camp in...

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper A CENSUS of cliff-nesting seabirds is usually carried out by making a careful count of every occupied nest, thus giving the number of breeding pairs. This is the most accurate method and can be carried out comparatively easily in the case of species that ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVII. Temminck's Stint, The Semipalmated Sandpiper, The Little Stint

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper Photographed by C. G. DES FORGES and j . E. SLUITERS. (Plates 50-59)IN the present instalment of this series we illustrate the two European stints and one of the American species on the British List. Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii) has a wide bree...

Recovery of marked birds

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper Fair Isle Bird Obs., 8.6.49. Noness, Shetland, 25.10.49. Rogart (Suth.), 26.5.49, D y Bushmills (Antrim), 3.12.49. R. Carrick. St. Osyth (Essex), 17.5.49, Boston (Lines.), 13.11.49 by R. W. Arthur. [95 m. N.N.W.].Chipping (Lanes.), 23.3.50 [170 m. S.]. Ly...

Letter

01 December 1940 Comments Letters SIRS,--For some years past, Mr. Charles Oldham has regularly published observations on t h e midsummer movements of Swallows, House- and Sand-Martins and Swifts at t h e Tring and Elstree Reservoirs in t h e Transactions of the Herts Nat. Hist. Soc. An id...

Notes

01 December 1940 Comments Notes DURING a visit to Achill Island from June 6th to 16th, 1938, I made records of species seen, and my observations may be of interest as a supplement to the paper by Mr. R. S. R. Fitter in the issue of British Birds for November, 1940. I covered most of th...

A Note on the Songs of Chaffinches and Yellow Buntings

01 December 1940 Comments Main paper IN the course of my study of the songs of birds, I have come across a factor in the make-up of the song of the Chaffinch (Fringilla c. gengleri), which, from the complete absence of any reference to it in such essays on bird song as I have read, would app...

The Development of the Song in Young Chaffinches

01 December 1940 Comments Main paper DURING the last five years I have had several opportunities, at various times of the year, of observing young Chaffinches (Fringilla c. gengleri) and of tracing the development oftheir typical spring song. Three stages are distinguishable during the cours...

Review

01 November 1940 Comments Reviews A Waterhen's Worlds. By Eliot Howard. (Cambridge University Press) Illustrated, ios. 6d, net. I T has been rightly observed t h a t a new book by Mr. Eliot Howard is always an event in the ornithological world. His last work, The Nature of a Bird's World,...

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Letters

Notes

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVII. Temminck's Stint, The Semipalmated Sandpiper, The Little Stint

Recovery of marked birds

Letter

Notes

A Note on the Songs of Chaffinches and Yellow Buntings

The Development of the Song in Young Chaffinches

Review

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