Letters

01 December 1955
Comments Letters Further remarks on discoloration in House Sparrows Sirs,--The observations of C. J. O. Harrison (Brit. Birds, 56: 296-297) on 'industrial' discoloration in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and other birds prompt us to record information on an allied pro...
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Reviews

01 December 1955
Comments Reviews A Mosaic of Islands. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1963. 183 pages index; 22 black-and-white photographs; text-drawings and m - p s . 21s. The more remote islands around our coast have always held a great f...
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Notes

01 December 1955
Comments Notes Peregrines rearing young Kestrels.--On n t h April 1963 W. N. Charles and I flushed a Peregrine {Fako peregrinus) from its eyrie in an old Raven (Corvus corax) nest in the Dumfriesshire hills. There were four eggs, one of which we took (under licence) for...
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The Pheasant in Wales

01 December 1955
Comments Main paper I N A S E R I E S O F P A P E R S published chiefly in this journal (Matheson 1953-60) an attempt was made to illustrate, by means of records from Welsh gamebooks, the changes and fluctuations in the population of the Partridge {Perdix perdix), an indigen...
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Reviews

01 December 1955
Comments Reviews By G. V. T. MATTHEWS (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1955). (Cambridge Monographs in Experimental Biology, No. 3). v i i + 1 4 1 pages, with text figures. 12s. 6d. T H I S is an excellent and very readable short account of a subject in which impo...
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Notes

01 December 1955
Comments Notes Goshawk in Middlesex.--On the afternoon of 20th March 1955 B. P . Pickess, I. G. and K. Johnson and I were standing beside the River Colne at Harefield Moor in Middlesex, when a raptor was seen approaching at a height of 200-250 ft. from the Buckinghamshi...
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