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Recent reports and News

01 May 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers* names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Letters

01 May 1959 Comments Letters T H E I N F L U X O F P H A L A R O P E S IN A U T U M N 1957 S I R S , -- I wish to correct two errors which unfortunately appeared in the paper on the above subject by myself and Bernard King (antea, p p . 33-42). In the introduction on page 33 the reco...

Reviews

01 May 1959 Comments Reviews London, 1959). 244 pages; 17 photographic plates (one in colour) and 26 drawings. 25s. BASED mainly on the author's unique and fascinating, though limited, observations on a few corvine birds anting with burning materials, this is the first book to be dev...

Notes

01 May 1959 Comments Notes a visit to North Rona, Scotland, on 3rd June 1958, I found a Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) incubating three eggs of the Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus). T h e nest was that of the gull and was built among rocks on comparatively flat ground on the Fi...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: XCVII. Yellow-breasted Bunting

01 May 1959 Comments Main paper O F THE THIRTY species of true buntings (Emberiza) in the Palaearctic, only five have breeding distributions which straddle the whole width of Asia and extend into Europe, and one of these is the Yellow-breasted (E. aureola). It is true that in Europe, ou...

Observations on Arctic Terns in Spitsbergen

01 May 1959 Comments Main paper at a colony of Arctic Terns (Sterna macrura) in the vicinity of Kapp Linne, on the south side of the entrance to Isfjord, W e s t Spitsbergen (Lat. 78Â°3'N.). This colony has been described by L0venskiold (1954). It is situated on the north and east sho...

Survey of House Martin colonies in East Lancashire

01 May 1959 Comments Main paper IN THE SUMMER of 1958, the East Lancashire Ornithologists' Club carried out a local survey of the nesting-sites of the House Martin (Delichon urbica), with a view to ascertaining- their distribution and the factors controlling it. The area chosen for stud...

Letter

01 September 1943 Comments Letters SIRS --It was with very great interest t h a t I read the articles on incubation in the June and July numbers by Col. Ryves and Mr. Tucker. From reading these articles I realised t h a t I must have had a quite unique experience regarding incubation by th...

Notes

01 September 1943 Comments Notes DURING the last year I have been able to pay regular visits to the Sewage Farm just outside the town of Bedford and amongst the many birds seen, the following seem worthy of note. I am grateful to Mr. B. O. Clifford and Mr. A. J. Swain for providing me wi...

Nest-Site Selection by birds

01 September 1943 Comments Main paper T H E late F . C. R. Jourdain writing on " Our Present Knowledge of the Breeding-Biology of B i r d s " (antea, Vol. xxiv, p. 135) remarked : "Every detail of the life of the bird is important. For example most valuable and interesting light is thrown on ...

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Recent reports and News

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: XCVII. Yellow-breasted Bunting

Observations on Arctic Terns in Spitsbergen

Survey of House Martin colonies in East Lancashire

Letter

Notes

Nest-Site Selection by birds

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