Recent reports and News

01 May 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers* names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Letters

01 May 1959 Comments Letters T H E I N F L U X O F P H A L A R O P E S IN A U T U M N 1957 S I R S , -- I wish to correct two errors which unfortunately appeared in the paper on the above subject by myself and Bernard King (antea, p p . 33-42). In the introduction on page 33 the reco...
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Reviews

01 May 1959 Comments Reviews London, 1959). 244 pages; 17 photographic plates (one in colour) and 26 drawings. 25s. BASED mainly on the author's unique and fascinating, though limited, observations on a few corvine birds anting with burning materials, this is the first book to be dev...
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Notes

01 May 1959 Comments Notes a visit to North Rona, Scotland, on 3rd June 1958, I found a Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) incubating three eggs of the Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus). T h e nest was that of the gull and was built among rocks on comparatively flat ground on the Fi...
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Letters

01 August 1946 Comments Letters --The habit, referred to by several contributors to this and the previous volume T f this journal (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300, 360, Vol. > xxxix, pp. 159,160) in which parent birds of many species probe into the nest lining beneath the young, has b...
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Review

01 August 1946 Comments Reviews Glossarium Europce Avium. By Harriet I. J0rgensen and Cecil I. Blackburne. · Einar Mimksgaard, Copenhagen, 1941. T H I S invaluable little book, prepared before the war and published in Copenhagen in 1941, has as yet had little' opportunity of demonstrat...
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Notes

01 August 1946 Comments Notes As there is no mention in The Handbook of British Birds of a female Greenfinch (Chloris ch. chloris) singing, the following may be worthy of note. 1 have in my garden near Crawley, Sussex, a nest of this species in a cypress-tree, which hatched on May 21...
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