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01 July 1963 Comments Reviews The Oannet: a Bird with a History. By J. H . Gurney, F.L.S. pp. lii., 568. Many illustrations. Witlierby and Co. 27s. 6d. net. M E . J. H. G U E N E Y ' S monograph forms a n attractive volume of some 568 pages, copiously illustrated with maps and reprodu...

Letters

01 July 1963 Comments Letters Sms,--Referring to my letter on this subject published in BRITISH BIRDS, November, 1912 (Vol. VI., p. 199), I feel t h a t in fairness to Mr. O. V. Aplin, who originally recorded the breeding of t h e Longtailed Duck in Orkney in t h e Zoologist, I should...

Notes

01 July 1963 Comments Notes D U R I N G part of September and October, 1913, we were in R a t h l i n Island, off co. Antrim, a n d while there observed among others t h e following species which are seldom recorded from t h e north of Ireland. GREENLAND REDPOLL (Carduelis I. rostr...

The " British Birds" Marking Scheme

01 July 1963 Comments Main paper The number of readers who have helped in the ringing since my last report has increased to ninety, and the number of birds ringed is again much larger than previous records, as will be seen by the following figures :--Mr. H. W. Robinson once again heads t...

Breeding of the Roseate Tern in Ireland

01 July 1963 Comments Main paper FOR a considerable number of years the Roseate Tern (Sterna dougalli) has been excluded from the list of Irish breeding birds. The late Mr. Ussher, in his report on the birds of Clare Island (Proc. B. Irish Acad., Vol. XXXI., part 20, page 39), stated tha...

Obituary. Richard John Ussher. A Memoir

01 July 1963 Comments Obituaries A TRTTE conception of the position Mr. R. J. Ussher occupied amongst Irish Naturalists, cannot be readily conveyed. Amongst Irish ornithologists he was facile princeps, the " Recording Angel," and had at his finger-ends all the records of the distribution...

Letters

01 February 1957 Comments Letters ICELAND R E D W I N G S WINTERING SIRS,--October 1956 saw an unparalleled " i n v a s i o n " of Iceland Redwings (Turdus musicus coburni) through Fair Isle, big movements occurring on the i2th, i8th-2oth and 2zLth-25th with westerly weather. Of 333 Redwi...

Reviews

01 February 1957 Comments Reviews By K. E. L. SIMMONS. Reprinted (1956) from Ã„vicultural Magazine, vol. 61, pp. 3-13, 93-102, 131-146, 181-201, 235-253, 294-316. Obtainable from A. A. Prestwich, 61 Chase Road, London, N.14. Price 5s. M R . SIMMONS'S paper is really a miniature monogr...

Notes

01 February 1957 Comments Notes Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ãœ1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXVIII. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull

01 February 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates 9-1i) W E are fortunate to be able to publish this month photographs from Hungary of the Mediterranean Black-headed Gull (Larus melanocephalus) taken by D r . Peter Beretzk of the University of Szeged. D r . Beretzk has also been kind enough to gi...

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The " British Birds" Marking Scheme

Breeding of the Roseate Tern in Ireland

Obituary. Richard John Ussher. A Memoir

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXVIII. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull

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