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Report of the Cambridge Bird Club, 1946

01 December 1947 Comments Editorials --The nomenclature followed in this volume is in accordance with t h e " Systematic List " printed at the end of Volume V of The Handbook of British Birds and reprinted in t h e revised edition of A Chech-List of British Birds. Abberton Reservoir, Essex, ...

Reviews

01 December 1947 Comments Reviews [No reference is made in these notices t o t h e Waxwing invasion of 1946-7 or inland occurrences of Curlew-Sandpipers and Little Stints in 1946, as these are covered b y special reports in this and the following issues. Cornwall Bird-watching and Preser...

Notes

01 December 1947 Comments Notes I AM indebted to the Rev. L. G. M. Sheldon, of Crowborough, Sussex, who is an experienced ornithologist and at whose vicarage these notes were made, for providing me with the following facts. In mid-April of this year, 1947, a cock Pied Wagtail (Motacill...

The Glaucous Gull in winter

01 December 1947 Comments Main paper (Plates 40-53). SINCE the winter of 1941-42 the Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) has become a comparatively numerous winter-visitor to the Shetland Islands. At a refuse dump on the outskirts of Lerwick where it had been rare to see more than half a dozen...

Recovery of marked birds

01 December 1947 Comments Main paper Anstruther (Fife), 15.12.46, by W. J. Eggeling. X.2847 Cleveleys (Lanes.), 10.2.47, by R. M. Band. SK.258 Wigan (Lanes.), 13.1.46, by Bootham Sen. TX.844 Douglas (I.O.M.), 18.1.47, by Cowin, Crellin, Ladds and Williamson. SK.205 York, 8.12.45, by Bootham ...

The Exceptional passage of Curlew-Sandpiper and Little Stints in the autumn of 1947

01 December 1947 Comments Main paper W E have received information from a number of correspondents with reference to the exceptional inland passage of Curlew-Sandpipers {Calidris testacea) and Little Stints (C. minuta) in the autumn of 1946, to which we have already referred (antea, p. 60). ...

Review

01 March 1941 Comments Reviews Birds of the Grey Wind. By Edward A, Armstrong (Oxford University Press). Illustrated. 12s. 6d. net. THE title of this book and its unusual medley of poetry, history and legend may well hide the fact that also within its pages are to be found some excelle...

Notes

01 March 1941 Comments Notes As an example of how food-supply can affect the number of birds breeding in a locality the following may be of interest. When I first came to Benenden, Kent, about twenty years ago, so far as I know Hawfinches (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) never nes...

Notes on Territory, Fighting and Display in the Chaffinch

01 March 1941 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the Chaffinch (Fringilla caelebs) were made primarily during other work, hence are extremely incomplete, but are published since they contain a certain number of new facts, while national service prevents my further study of ...

Nest-Sanitation

01 March 1941 Comments Main paper " No bird fouls its own nest " runs an old proverb. This might well serve as a text for the present paper, based on an investigation carried out in the past few years by the Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society. Nest-sanitation in the House-Mar...

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Report of the Cambridge Bird Club, 1946

Reviews

Notes

The Glaucous Gull in winter

Recovery of marked birds

The Exceptional passage of Curlew-Sandpiper and Little Stints in the autumn of 1947

Review

Notes

Notes on Territory, Fighting and Display in the Chaffinch

Nest-Sanitation

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