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Migration at the Smith's Knoll light-vessel, autumn 1953

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

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01 October 1956 Comments Reviews LOCAL REPORT REVIEWS YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION: ORNITHOLOGICAL R E P O R T , for 1953 (26 pages), and 1954 (27 pages). E d i t o r : R. Chislett, Brookside, Masham, N r . Ripon. Price 2s. each. T H E very full and detailed systematic lists of 22 pages ...

Gulls Feeding on Grain

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the third week in August 1955, gulls frequented a field overlooking the Dale Estuary in St. Ishmael's, Pembrokeshire. They spent the whole day there, and fully three acres where they assembled were littered with patches of corn husks, each patch be...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXIV. Citril Finch

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 53-56) T H E Citril Finch (Carduelis citrinella) is restricted as a breeding bird to the mountain ranges of southern E u r o p e -- N . E . and S.E. Spain (chiefly.Pyrenees, Sierra de Guadarrama and Sierra Nevada), S. France (Massif Central, Pyren...

Notes on Selected Migrants at Cap Gris Nez, North France, In 1955

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the course of 1955 the writer visited Cap Gris Nez, Pas de Calais, on the north coast of France, to examine the nature of the migration which occurs on this important headland. Altogether three visits were made, the first, during 8 t h - n t h Apri...

Records of the Development of Original and Unusual Feeding Methods by Wild Passerine Birds

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper THERE is a widespread tendency among present-day students of animal behaviour to concentrate attention on the Fixed Action Patterns or "Instinctive A c t s " as the most striking and important feature of animal behaviour. And indeed it is in general true ...

Letter

01 June 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,'--As Dr. Landsborough Thomson mentioned in the Report of t h e Bird-Ringing Committee (antea, Vol. X X X I I , p . 384), a pamphlet is being prepared on traps and trapping. Descriptions of some well-known methods such as t h e " Potter " trap, strin...

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01 June 1939 Comments Reviews Birds as Animals. By James Fisher. (Heinemann.) 12s. 6d. net. I N this book Mr, Fisher has, t o p u t it briefly, reviewed t h e life of t h e bird by reviewing t h e literature concerning it. H e gives a reference for every statement and his bibliography...

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Migration at the Smith's Knoll light-vessel, autumn 1953

Reviews

Gulls Feeding on Grain

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXIV. Citril Finch

Notes on Selected Migrants at Cap Gris Nez, North France, In 1955

Records of the Development of Original and Unusual Feeding Methods by Wild Passerine Birds

Letter

Reviews

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