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A statistical examination of the Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access of the great flood of rarities from east Sussex and west Kent during the first two decades of this century, from the internal evidence presented by the statistical aspects of the records themselves. The consequences of various hypotheses which assume t...

Editorial: Setting the record straight

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access D E P A R T I N G F R O M our normal pattern, we are devoting the whole of this much enlarged issue of British Birds to a single main subject, known already to some, and soon to be familiar to many, as the case of the Hastings Rarities. Half a century ...

The Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access CONTENTS Introduction Definition of the Hastings Rarities Peculiarities of the pattern Comparison with current experience Observers and collectors Prices and collections Possibilities of cool deception Publication and correspondenceO F T H E 520 F O E ...

Reviews

01 July 1939 Comments Reviews Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, Vol. X X I , Part I. T H I S contains a very well deserved tribute to Mr. Charles Oldham, signed by a number of naturalist friends and addressed to him on the occasion of his sevent...

Notes

01 July 1939 Comments Notes I THINK it will be of interest to record a case of bigamy in Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus), which I had under observation in England during the summer of 1938. It is well known that this species has a tendency to nest in small colonies, but I do no...

On the Courtship-display of the Goldeneye

01 July 1939 Comments Main paper THE courtship-display of the Goldeneye (Bucephala c. clangula) is perhaps more spectacular than that of any other duck and therefore has attracted the attention of several naturalists who have described it at considerable length. Among them I may mention ...

The Vocal Activity of Blackbirds at a winter Roost

01 July 1939 Comments Main paper THE noise made by the Blackbird (Turdus m. merula) in going to roost is a characteristic part of the countryside in winter, and is associated in the minds of many with a frosty evening. The following note describes an attempt to measure these roosting ca...

Rising and Roosting of a pair of Resident Starlings in Winter and early Spring

01 July 1939 Comments Main paper THOUGH the roosting of flocks of the Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has been well studied by Wynne-Edwards, in England work on the roosting, of individuals does not seem to have been so thoroughly done, so that the following observations made on a pair in th...

The Spring Migration of the Redstart over Europe

01 July 1939 Comments Main paper study forms the third of a series of five whose object is to show the characteristic migrations of various widespread passerine species northward over Europe every spring. Maps showing the rate of spread of the Swallow (Hirundo r. rustled) and of the Will...

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A statistical examination of the Hastings Rarities

Editorial: Setting the record straight

The Hastings Rarities

Reviews

Notes

On the Courtship-display of the Goldeneye

The Vocal Activity of Blackbirds at a winter Roost

Rising and Roosting of a pair of Resident Starlings in Winter and early Spring

The Spring Migration of the Redstart over Europe

Notes

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