Reviews

01 January 1945
Comments Reviews The Duck Decoys of Essex. By W. E. Glegg. Essex Naturalist, Vol. xxvii, 1943-4, PP- 191-207 and 211-225, MR. W. E . GLEGG in this scholarly paper brings up to date his extensive knowledge of t h e Essex decoys and includes an interesting account of the ar...
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Notes

01 January 1945
Comments Notes reference to Capt. A. C. Fraser's note on this subject (antea, p. 94), I have the following note in my diary for December ioth, 1943 :-- Watched three Bullfinches (one male and two females) They were low down on Snowberry (Symphoricarpus) shrubs and at t...
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Departure of Swifts

01 January 1945
Comments Main paper THE arrival and departure of migrants are usually recorded by the dates upon which the first and last birds are seen. The arrival date of the first bird of any migrant species is usually fairly close to the arrival of the main bulk of that species : even ...
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Review

01 December 1944
Comments Reviews The Meaning of the Names of Some British Birds and Their First Use in British Ornithology. By Sir Hugh Gladstone. Dumfries : Printed for Private Circulation, 1943. T H I S pamphlet of 35 pages contains the substance of a paper read to the Dumfriesshire an...
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Notes

01 December 1944
Comments Notes I HAVE previously (antea, Vol. xxxiii, p. 265) given examples from the Robin (Erithacus rubecula) and the Blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix) of a male attempting to disturb the coition of another pair. Similar behaviour is characteristic of geese and swans, as n...
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The Manx Shearwater on Lundy

01 December 1944
Comments Main paper (Plate 5). THE status of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus p. puffinus) on Lundy has long been problematical. It has been repeatedly stated to breed, but only very few observers have been able to obtain positive proof of this and no one has succeeded in estab...
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