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01 April 1957 Comments Notes of Boelus, Nebraska, informs me that he wing-tipped a young female White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) whilst shooting on the North Platte river in the autumn of 1903 or 1904--he is not sure which---and took the bird back to his farm. H e goes on to say... Read More

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXX. Kite

01 April 1957 Comments Main paper THE K I T E or Red Kite (Milvus milvus) has a much more restricted ränge than its close relative, the Black Kite (M. migrans), of which we published photographs just a year ago (antea, vol. xlix, plates 5-7, pp. 140-141). It is usually, too, a much... Read More

Reviews

01 July 1943 Comments Reviews Adventurers Fen. Written and illustrated by E, A. R. Ennion. (Methuen). IOS. 6d. D R . ENNION'S account of the vicissitudes of the Cambridge fen he has known and loved for forty years has much to attract and interest the naturalist and country lover. At f... Read More

Census of Swallows and House-Martins in the Sedbergh District, N.W. Yorkshire

01 July 1943 Comments Main paper T H E two squares (C.4 & C.5.) of the ordnance survey m a p (Sheet 20) which were covered by the two censuses contain for the most part a valley which is grassland, parts of which are now under cultivation. The valley is no lower than 400 ft. above sea-le... Read More