May report

01 September 1976 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during May was generally warm with several hot spells, particularly in the second week, and was dominated by winds from a southerly quarter, which encouraged the overshooting of so...
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News and Comment

01 September 1976 Comments News and comment Endangered species The expected failure of the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Bill to become law in this Parliamentary session (Brit. Birds, 69: 156157) will allow conservationists and Government alike time to consider the reasoning behind passing...
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Review

01 July 1929 Comments Reviews A History of the Birds of Essex. By William E, Glegg, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. Demy 8vo. Pp. xxxv., 342, 20 Plates and a Map. (H, F . & G. Witherby.) 25s. So many changes have taken place in the thirty-nine years t h a t have elapsed since the publication of Mill...
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Letter

01 July 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference to the discussion on the diving of . Scoters (Vol. X X I I I . , p p . 214, 378) m a y I contribute the following note : The Liverpool Bay Scoters are, a t times, driven b y stress of weather to take refuge behind the sandhills of th...
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