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Birds of the North Atlantic and Newfoundland Banks in July and August, 1950

01 June 1951 Comments Main paper ...

Distraction-Display In The Kentish Plover

01 June 1951 Comments Main paper T H E general form of the reaction patterns of breeding' Kentish Plovers (Leucopolius alexandrinus) to potential predators has been outlined by Selous (1927), but no detailed description has yet appeared in the literature. The behaviour of Kentish Plovers...

Letters

01 June 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Council of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club have pleasure in intimating that a "Rare Birds' Protection" Committee has been formed to work in close conjunction with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and the following have kindly co...

Books Received

01 June 1951 Comments Main paper West Midland Bird Distribution Survey.--Compiled and produced by C. A. Norris. (Published for Private Circulation). A Book of Ducks.--By Phyllis Barclay-Smith. (Penguin Books, 3/6). Animal Evolution.--By G. S. Carter. (Sidgwick & Jackson, 30/-). Zoogeogra...

Reviews

01 June 1951 Comments Reviews THE advent of this society adds one more to the long list of naturalists banded together to study the fauna and flora of their own locality. It is a very welcome addition, for the extreme eastern corner of Kent has long lacked an association of naturalist...

Notes

01 June 1951 Comments Notes Tebbutt's note on birds becoming " c a u g h t u p " in flocks of other species (antea, vol. xliii, p . 332) prompts me to record the following observations, which were made some years ago when I was living near Bury, Lancashire. Mr. Tebbutt gives exampl...

Studies of some species rarely Photographed. XXX. The Great Reed-Warbler

01 June 1951 Comments Main paper (Plates 25-29). T H E Great Reed-Warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) is the largest of the warblers on the British list. Its size and its song are its most conspicuous field characters, though in his notes which we publish below Mr. Mountfort draws attent...

Letters

01 September 1950 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n their paper on this subject in British Birds, vol. xlii, p. 325, David and Elizabeth Lack write t h a t Dr. D. A. Bannerman in his note on Chaffinch Migration in .British Birds, vol. xxxvii, p . 177, supposed t h a t the birds he saw in N...

Reviews

01 September 1950 Comments Reviews Report of the Natural History Section of the Wiltshire Archcsological &· Natural History Society, 1947 and 1948. Some of the interesting records in these two carefully compiled reports have already appeared in British Birds : a Roller reported (antea, v...

Notes

01 September 1950 Comments Notes WITH regard to the swimming of small passerines (antea, vol. xl, pp. 179, vol. xlii, p. 183, vol. xliii, p. 121), the following incidents may be of interest. At the Eye Brook Reservoir, Leicestershire, a colony of Tree-Sparrows (Passer montanus) uses the...

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Birds of the North Atlantic and Newfoundland Banks in July and August, 1950

Distraction-Display In The Kentish Plover

Letters

Books Received

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some species rarely Photographed. XXX. The Great Reed-Warbler

Letters

Reviews

Notes

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