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01 October 1950 Comments Letters --I am engaged in investigating t h e ringing records of Blue Tits. Amongst the known causes of death it is astonishing to find that the mousetrap is a principal one. I t may be necessary to place r a t and mouse traps in gardens, b u t I suggest that the...

Notes

01 October 1950 Comments Notes WITH reference to the note (antea, p. 54) on this topic, in June, 1949, an Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura) made repeated stoops at my companion, Dr. H. K. Whitehouse, while he was standing by the bank of the river in Hvalfjordur a few yards from our camp in...

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper A CENSUS of cliff-nesting seabirds is usually carried out by making a careful count of every occupied nest, thus giving the number of breeding pairs. This is the most accurate method and can be carried out comparatively easily in the case of species that ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVII. Temminck's Stint, The Semipalmated Sandpiper, The Little Stint

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper Photographed by C. G. DES FORGES and j . E. SLUITERS. (Plates 50-59)IN the present instalment of this series we illustrate the two European stints and one of the American species on the British List. Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii) has a wide bree...

Recovery of marked birds

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper Fair Isle Bird Obs., 8.6.49. Noness, Shetland, 25.10.49. Rogart (Suth.), 26.5.49, D y Bushmills (Antrim), 3.12.49. R. Carrick. St. Osyth (Essex), 17.5.49, Boston (Lines.), 13.11.49 by R. W. Arthur. [95 m. N.N.W.].Chipping (Lanes.), 23.3.50 [170 m. S.]. Ly...

Letters

01 January 1938 Comments Letters SIRS,---Miss Hibbert-Ware (Little Owl Inquiry, antea, pp. 215-216) prefaces her remarks on Little Owls 011 Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, with the w o r d s : " T h e following incident seems, however, t o contradict these conclusions [that t h e Little ...

Reviews

01 January 1938 Comments Reviews Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow. Vol. I. A Population Study of the Song Sparrow. By Margaret M. Nice. Transactions of the Linnean Society of New York, IV : April 1937. 2 47PP- 3 plates, 18 charts, 33 tables. (American Museum of Natural His...

Notes

01 January 1938 Comments Notes As there is apparently no previous record for the Outer Hebrides, it may be of interest to report that a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) was killed in North Uist on October 27th, 1937, and that I saw another at Newton Lodge, North Uist, on No...

Some records of the calls and Cries of British "Waders"

01 January 1938 Comments Main paper have often been made to put down in writing a rendering of the notes of birds. A difficulty at once presents itself from the fact that few of these renderings really correspond adequately with the original. Yet they have a certain value because they serve...

Morning song commencement

01 January 1938 Comments Main paper THE following records, which show the times at which certain birds begin to sing in the early morning, were obtained at Hartley, near Gravesend, Kent, in the spring of 1937. An attempt was made to take these records at frequent intervals (two or three tim...

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Letters

Notes

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVII. Temminck's Stint, The Semipalmated Sandpiper, The Little Stint

Recovery of marked birds

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Some records of the calls and Cries of British "Waders"

Morning song commencement

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