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01 February 1958 Comments Reviews p a g e s ; coloured frontispiece by Roland Green; 12 photographic plates. (Witherby, London, 1957). 21s. INTENDED to provide detailed practical information for keepers, and would-be keepers, of waterfowl, this small book fulfils its aims admirably. A wor...

Notes

01 February 1958 Comments Notes Leach's Petrels in Shetland.--On 6th August 1957, Leach's Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) were located over the boulderstrewn slopes of The Noup, Foula, Shetland. One was caught and at the same time two others could be heard calling- in flight. One was a...

Reports from Britain of Black-headed Gulls Ringed in the Oberlausitz, East Germany

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper " L A R G E NUMBERS of ringed Black-headed Gulls (Larus ridibundus) are reported in Britain each winter, the places of origin being chiefly the countries of northern Europe, with a not inconsiderable number from Czecho-Slovakia, Saxony and B a v a r i a "...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXV. Pygmy Owl

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper T H E PYGMY O W L (Glaucidiutn passerimitn) is a Palaearctic species which h a s not yet been recorded in Britain, though in western Europe t h e typical form is found in central and northern Scandinavia, Finland, French Jura, the Alps (including - Switze...

British recoveries of birds Ringed Abroad

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper [This list continues from that published in 1956 (antes, vol. xlix, pp. 438-452). Among records of special interest included in it are a number relating to wildfowl, which help to show the lelation of breeding areas to winter quarters. Camargue-ringed Mal...

The birds of Tiree and Coll

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper of Zoology, Glasgow University*) (Plates 18-20) T H E islands of Tiree and Coll, Inner Hebrides, lie totally within the vice-county Mid Ebudes (103). Situated between Mull and the Barra Isles, they stretch some 45 miles S . W . into the ocean from Ardnamu...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 November 1939 Comments Main paper Oundle (Northants), 12.1.39 [62 m. W.]. Great Ouse Estuary (Nor folk), 21.1.39 [25 m. W.]. Saltmills (Wexford), 5.2.39. Kalinin, West Russia, 15.9.38 [56Â°52'N., 36Â°E.]. Mouth of R. Welland (Lines), 24.12.38 [76 m. NW.].Saltash (Cornwall), 12.1.39 [9...

Birds seen on an autumn and a spring Atlantic Crossing

01 November 1939 Comments Main paper IN the autumn of 1938 and the spring of 1935 I made voyages across the Atlantic. The first one was in the "Europa" from Cherbourg to New York and the secondin the "Columbie" from Guadeloupe in the Leeward Isles to Plymouth. Several hours counting of birds...

Observation on Swallows and House-Martins at the Nest

01 November 1939 Comments Main paper RECENT studies of the parental care by African Hinindinidae and Swifts have suggested that, in addition to specific differences in the share taken by the sexes, certain rhythms of the behaviour may be specific, especially the favourite duration of the in...

Letter

01 November 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,--The extension of the breeding range of the Lapwing {Vanellus vanellus) to Fokstumyren referred to in my previous letter (antea, p. 118) is certainly recent. Neither H. Tho. L. Schaanning in 1917 nor H. L. Ldvenskiold in 1929 and 1930 found the bird...

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