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01 June 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largelv unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from soiirccs generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of s...

Letters

01 June 1958 Comments Letters S I R S , -- U n d e r the above title (anlea, vol. L, p p . 432-434), R. Hewson has usefully drawn attention to the aerobatics-- familiar in individuals--that are sometimes performed by flocks of Ravens (Corvus corax) and has discussed questions suggeste...

Reviews

01 June 1958 Comments Reviews day Â·& Co., New York, 1949--first edition 1946--sponsored by the National Audubon Society). $3.95. A U D U B O N W A T E R B I R D G U I D E (Water, game and large land birds of eastern and central North America from southern Texas to central Greenland...

Notes

01 June 1958 Comments Notes " R e c e n t reports and n e w s " section in our March number (antea, p . 132), brief mention was made of the fact that a number of North American Ruddy Ducks (Oxyura jamaicensis) had escaped from the Wildfowl Trust collection at Slimbridge, Gloucesters...

Obituary: John Arthington Walpole-Bond (1878-1958)

01 June 1958 Comments Obituaries O N 13TH JANUARY 1958, John Walpole-Bond died at his home in Hove, Sussex, in his 80th year. Educated at Winchester and St. J o h n ' s College, Oxford, Jock Bond, a s h e was known to his many friends, was a descendant of Prime Minister Walpole and was t...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXIX. Goshawk

01 June 1958 Comments Main paper T H E GOSHAWK (Accipiter gentilis) is of special interest as one of the very few birds of prey which occur on both sides of the Atlantic. It belongs t o an extensive group of species of " g o s h a w k s " (formerly placed in a separate genus Astur, b u t...

Bergmann's rule and obligatory overseas migration

01 June 1958 Comments Main paper IN THE STUDY of natural history there are well-known ecogeographical (sometimes called " c l i m a t i c " or "ecological") rules relating certain characteristics of warm-blooded animals to the conditions of their environment. One of the best-known in its...

Review

01 November 1950 Comments Letters Bird Life. By Edward A. Armstrong. (Lindsay Drummond, 1949.) 12/6. Field Study Books : The Lapwing. By E. A. R. Ennion. (Methuen, 1949.) 6/-. These two books, though differing in approach and in scope, have the same audience and end in view. They have bot...

Notes

01 November 1950 Comments Notes ON January 4th, 1950, we were standing in the road beside Bolney Grange Ltd., Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, watching about 30-40 WoodPigeons (Columba palumbus) feeding under a tree, when we heard the harsh calls of Carrion Crows (Corvus corone). We looked up, ...

Birds of Inner London, 1949

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper " A List of the Birds of Inner London " was published in 1929 by A. Holte Macpherson {vide antea, vol. xxii, pp. 222-244) and notes on changes in status and of unusual occurrences have appeared annually in British Birds since then. The volume of records r...

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Recent reports and news

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Obituary: John Arthington Walpole-Bond (1878-1958)

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXIX. Goshawk

Bergmann's rule and obligatory overseas migration

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Notes

Birds of Inner London, 1949

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