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01 November 1994 Comments Letters Origin of European Pink-backed Pelicans. Following the report of a Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens in Spain (Brit. Birds 86: 374-375), and one near Sagrado, northeast Italy, in September 1992, as well as other observations farther north in Euro...

Reviews

01 November 1994 Comments Reviews Finches and Sparrows: an identification guide. By Peter Clement. Illustrated by Alan Harris & John Davis. Christopher Helm Publishers, London, 1993. 500 pages; 73 colour plates; 44 line-drawings; over 280 distribution maps. ISBN 0-7136-8017-2. £29...

Announcements

01 November 1994 Comments Editorials The 'BB' Award for the Best Annual Bird Report Entries are invited for the fourth annual award (see accounts of the first, second and third awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165; 87: 171-173), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Br...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993

01 November 1994 Comments Main paper This, the Rarities Committee's thirty-sixth annual report, details records of rare birds in 1993: a year with many highlights and much to interest the rare-bird enthusiast. The Committee has again been supported by the sponsorship of Carl Zeiss (Oberko...

Letters

01 November 1956 Comments Letters T H E R E A C T I O N S O F MAN A N D B I R D T O A S C O R P I O N S I R S , -- I n his letter on " T h e effects of model scorpion and lizard on a bird t a b l e " (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 556-557), Col. R. Meinertzhagen suggested that the fear-reaction...

Reviews

01 November 1956 Comments Reviews By DAVID LACK (Methuen, London, 1956). 239 p a g e s ; 10 half-tone plates; 24 text illustrations. 21s. N O T the least striking feature of that astonishing building, the University Museum of Science at Oxford, is the tower; for behind the ventilator sha...

Notes

01 November 1956 Comments Notes of Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius), each containing a clutch of four e g g s , were found at a gravel-pit in the Trent Valley in 1956; the first nest was discovered by A. Teather on 24th June, the second was confirmed by W . Priestley on 2nd July...

British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

01 November 1956 Comments Main paper [This list continues from that published in 1952 (anted, vol. xlv, pp. 458-465), but is in the revised form now internationally adopted. There are a number of records of particular interest. The Herons include a Swedish bird 15J years old, recovered in Ir...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXV. Crane

01 November 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 57-64) THOUGH bearing a certain resemblance t o herons, storks and other long-legged marsh birds, cranes a r e very different creatures in a number of ways and normally are easily separated: on the ground, they a r e given a rather different silho...

Feather-Eating and Pellet-Formation in the Great Crested Grebe

01 November 1956 Comments Main paper IN a recent account (Simmons, 1955) of an eight-year study on the life-history of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus), the habit of eating feathers was briefly reviewed in the light of new anatomical information collected by Hanzak (1952) in Czec...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993

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British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXV. Crane

Feather-Eating and Pellet-Formation in the Great Crested Grebe

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