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01 June 1971 Comments Reviews Les Oiseaux du Proche et du Moyen Orient. By F. Hue and R.-D. Etchecopar. N. Boubee et Cie, Paris, 1970. 952 pages; 32 colour and 2 black-and-white plates and 356 line-drawings by Paul Barruel; 429 distribution maps; 2 end-maps. Fr 220.00. The two disting...

Notes

01 June 1971 Comments Notes Black Terns feeding over dry land Recent notes (Brit. Birds, 62: 282; 63: 34; 64: 32-33) have suggested that Black Terns Chlidonias niger feed over non-aquatic habitats more commonly than the published records indicate. This is certainly borne out by obse...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 June 1971 Comments Main paper Identification of birds of prey in flight will always be a problem. The best of us will never be able to feel completely confident about a group of species that shows such diversity of plumage, whose silhouettes vary in different circumstances and for whi...

Editorial: Field identification and birds of prey

01 June 1971 Comments Editorials British Birds has always prided itself on the encouragement it has given to bird identification. As far back as 1907, the first volume included an article by the Hon. Walter Rothschild on the separation of Willow Tits Paus montanus and Marsh Tits P. palus...

Stonechats in Jersey

01 June 1971 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

01 June 1938 Comments Notes As I have not been able to find any record of the HouseSparrow (Passer A. domesticus) excavating a nesting hole in rotten wood, such an occurrence seems to be worth recording. Both the cock and the hen excavated, both birds sometimes being in the confine...

Notes on the Land-Rail

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper IN Cumberland the Land-Rail (Crex crex) nests commonly in the clover-hay and meadow-hay fields ; sometimes in young plantations where the trees have not yet smothered the grass, and occasionally in the waste land of small bushes and rough grass about coun...

Some observations on the breeding-habits of birds

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper THE following data regarding some of our commoner birds were obtained in mid-Gloucestershire during the years 1930-33. The district consisted of fields divided by hedges and stone walls, and was mainly a grazing one, but there was some arable land and inc...

The spring migration of the Swallow over Europe

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper (Plate I.) THE accompanying map, showing the isochronal lines for the northward movement of the Swallow (Himndo r. rustica) oyer Europe in spring, is the first of a small series of species studies, which it is proposed to make on roughly the same lines. T...

Additions and Alterations to the British list

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper THE following changes appearing in Volume I. of the Handbook of British Birds have not previously been notified in these pages and as the reasons are fully explained in the Handbook it is not necessary to repeat them here.CORVUS for the Jackdaws instead o...

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Reviews

Notes

Flight identification of European raptors

Editorial: Field identification and birds of prey

Stonechats in Jersey

Notes

Notes on the Land-Rail

Some observations on the breeding-habits of birds

The spring migration of the Swallow over Europe

Additions and Alterations to the British list

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