Notice

01 August 1961 Comments Editorials Possible charter flight to America for XIII International Ornithological Congress.--The cost of travel to the United States may cause a major reduction in the European attendance at the XIII International Ornithological Congress at Cornell University in J...
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Requests for information

01 August 1961 Comments Editorials Colour-ringed Black-headed Gulls.--As part of a population and behavioural study of the Black-headed Gull (Lams ridibundus), 1,500 juveniles were marked in June 1961, at Ravenglass, Cumberland, with a black plastic ring on the left leg and a metal ring on...
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Recent reports and news

01 August 1961 Comments News and comment [These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] This summary is mainly concerned with the eight weeks from mid-June to early August and follows on after the one in our July issue (pages 293-296). It covers the rarer species and some first...
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Letters

01 August 1961 Comments Letters The breeding range of the Waxwing in Fenno-Scandia Sirs,--May I be permitted to comment on the breeding range of the Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) in connection with the recent excellent paper on Waxwing invasions during 1956-60 (Brit. Birds, 54: 1-30). I...
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Reviews

01 August 1961 Comments Reviews Atlas der Verbreitung palaearktischer Vogel. Part i. Edited b y Erwin Stresemann and L. A. Portenko, with contributions b y G. Eber, G. Mauersberger and J. Szijj. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, i960. 98 pages including 20 two-coloured distribution maps. DM.28. ...
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Notes

01 August 1961 Comments Notes Preening in flight.--So often one does not know what is unusual until someone else says it is. I refer to the publication of a note on a Little Gull (Larus minutus) preening in flight (Brit. Birds, 54: 117}Some attitudes adopted by {left to right) Black-h...
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Letters

01 January 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--An annual report for the County of Suffolk is to be published, beginning with 1950, and I would be grateful if any of your readers who may have records of observations made in Suffolk in this or subsequent years would be good enough to send them to...
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