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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...

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01 December 1942 Comments Letters SIRS,--The interesting and unusual behavtour of a Moorhen (Galhnula ch, chloropus) continually remaining in a semi-submerged position (antea, Vol. xxxvi, p. 57) whilst swimming about, and giving the impression of " not being able to come up " is almost ce...

Notes

01 December 1942 Comments Notes a short visit to Lundy in September, 1942, we identified a Lapland Bunting {Cakarius lapponicus) on the high barren area at the north end of the island on September ioth. The species has not previously been met with on Lundy, nor in the county of Devon. ...

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper IN England a hundred years ago the Black Redstart (Phcenicurus o. gibraltariensis) was only a rare and occasional visitor, but by 1871 Newton in Yarrell was able to give it as a regulÃ¤r winter visitor to south-west England and the Isle of Wight, less r...

Comparative Prices of Game and Wildfowl in 1512, 1757, 1807, 1922, 1941 and 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper THE six comparative 'price-lists printed at the end of this article are mainly of ornithological interest in so far as they show the decline in numbers of certain species of British Birds : at the same time it must be pointed out that the terminology empl...

Reviews

01 November 1942 Comments Reviews An Ornithologist's Field Note Book. By Sir Hugh Gladstone. 6th Edition revised. (Truslove & Hanson). 6d. T H I S booklet (5 x 3 ins.) contains a list of the English names of all the regulÃ¤r breeding British birds, winter visitors and passage-migrants. ...

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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

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Notes

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

Comparative Prices of Game and Wildfowl in 1512, 1757, 1807, 1922, 1941 and 1942

Reviews

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