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01 May 1958 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 writer's judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted in case a report ...

Request for information

01 May 1958 Comments Editorials FIELD INVESTIGATIONS OF THE BRITISH TRUST FOR ORNITHOLOGY Status of the Wryneck.--Readers are reminded that all records of this species are of value (see antea, p. 163) and should be sent to editors of. county bird reports or, in cases of doubt, to the or...

Reviews

01 May 1958 Comments Reviews By GUY MOUNTFORT. Illustrated by E R I C HOSKING. (Hutchinson, London, 1958). 240 p a g e s ; 60 plates incorporating 130 photographs in monochrome and colour; line-drawings. 30s. O N E OF THE SYMPTOMS of the modern " o r n i t h o m a n i a " to which M...

Notes

01 May 1958 Comments Notes Red-breasted Goose in Sussex.--While watching a flock of 112 White-fronted Geese (Anser albifrons) on flood water at Amberley, Sussex, on 8th February 1958, one of us (P.R.M.) had a brief view of a Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis) amongst them. The ...

Photographic studies of some less Familiar birds: LXXXVIII. Capercaillie

01 May 1958 Comments Main paper T H E CAPERCAILLIE (Tetrao urogallus) is the largest and most spectacular of t h e Palaearctic game birds. A fully-grown male may weigh around 12 pounds (even up t o 14) and is unlikely to be confused with anything else on size alone. The general colourin...

The migrations of British Falcons (Falconidae) as shown by ringing results

01 May 1958 Comments Main paper of the Falconidae ringed in the British Isles under t h e scheme now managed by the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British T r u s t for Ornithology and earlier by the late H , F , Witherby, then Editor of British Birds. There were no recoveries for any of...

The spring plumage of the Cormorant

01 May 1958 Comments Open Access T H E APPEARANCE in various parts of the British Isles every year, especially in March and April, of a few white-headed birds in flocks of Cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) has inevitably raised the question of the identification of the Southern race (P...

Reviews

01 November 1947 Comments Reviews British Game. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. (The New Naturalist series, Collins, London, 1946). Price 16s. This is the first of the New Naturalist series to be concerned primarily with birds. I t is not exclusively so concerned because mammals are also inclu...

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01 November 1947 Comments Notes ON a fine morning in April, 1946, a number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula), Song-Thrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) and Starlings (Siurnus v. vulgaris) were watched while feeding on a large lawn of King's College, Cambridge. The Starlings spent most of the...

The Colour-Phases of the Fulmar

01 November 1947 Comments Main paper THE Handbook (Vol-, iv, p. 79) contains a statement of mine on the distribution of the colour phases of the Fulmar (Fulmarus g. glatialis) which is erroneous. It runs ;--"proportions of dark birds are-- Brit. Is. up to 2 per cent., except Shetland, where...

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Recent reports and news

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Reviews

Notes

Photographic studies of some less Familiar birds: LXXXVIII. Capercaillie

The migrations of British Falcons (Falconidae) as shown by ringing results

The spring plumage of the Cormorant

Reviews

Notes

The Colour-Phases of the Fulmar

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