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01 February 1948 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t seems a n opportune moment for making a plea t h a t t h e scope of the British Trust Ringing Scheme should be widened by making rings available for use outside t h e British Islands. While we fully appreciate the organizational a n d sup...

Reviews

01 February 1948 Comments Reviews Aristocrats'' of the Air. By Captain C. W. R. Knight. (Williams and Norgate, London, 1946). 30s. od. The first edition of this eminently readable book was first published in 1935, but has been out of print for nearly twenty years. This, the second edition...

Notes

01 February 1948 Comments Notes DURING the years 1946 and 1947 I have noticed several species singing outside what appears to be their normal song-period as defined in The Handbook charts. Some of these variations are considerable, others less so. The particulars are as follows :-- NUT...

Studies of some rarely photographed: XIII. The Scottish Crossbill

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper Photographed by ERIC HOSKING. (Plates 9-14). We regard the title of this series as covering well-marked subspecies as well as species in the strict sense, and on this interpretation the Scottish Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra scotica) is certainly entitled...

Black Redstarts on Pett level, East Sussex

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper [The observations now published by Mr. Cooke, whose discovery of Black Terns breeding on Pett Level during the war {antea, Vol. xxxix, p. 71) will be recalled by readers, are of great interest in carrying the history of the breeding of the Black Redstart...

The Little Ringed Plover in the London area in 1947

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper IN 1947 Little Ringed Plovers (Charadrius dubius curonicus) bred in the London Area for the fourth year in succession, and there was a remarkable increase in numbers. Eight nests were found and four other broods seen. Because of the possibility that at le...

Report on the immigration of Waxwings, winter, 1947-7

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper --One in Guernsey, late December or early J a n u a r y (per B . K. Holmes). CORNWALL.--Several in Scilly, Nov. 14th to Dec. 9th (Major A. A. Dorrien Smith in Rep. Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservn. Soc.)*. SOMERSET.--One near Bath, Feb. 5th and two, Fe...

Letter

01 December 1942 Comments Letters SIRS,--The interesting and unusual behavtour of a Moorhen (Galhnula ch, chloropus) continually remaining in a semi-submerged position (antea, Vol. xxxvi, p. 57) whilst swimming about, and giving the impression of " not being able to come up " is almost ce...

Notes

01 December 1942 Comments Notes a short visit to Lundy in September, 1942, we identified a Lapland Bunting {Cakarius lapponicus) on the high barren area at the north end of the island on September ioth. The species has not previously been met with on Lundy, nor in the county of Devon. ...

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper IN England a hundred years ago the Black Redstart (Phcenicurus o. gibraltariensis) was only a rare and occasional visitor, but by 1871 Newton in Yarrell was able to give it as a regulÃ¤r winter visitor to south-west England and the Isle of Wight, less r...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some rarely photographed: XIII. The Scottish Crossbill

Black Redstarts on Pett level, East Sussex

The Little Ringed Plover in the London area in 1947

Report on the immigration of Waxwings, winter, 1947-7

Letter

Notes

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

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