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01 April 1953 Comments Letters SIRS.--I am trying to collect information about ultra-quiet bird song (sub-song, etc.) and I should be grateful if you would allow me to appeal through the medium of British Birds for any help that other observers can give me. As records on this subject a...

Reviews

01 April 1953 Comments Reviews Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society. Twenty-first Annual Report, 1951. Edited by B. H. Ryves, A. G. Parsons and H. M. Quick. T H I S report follows its usual make-up, with systematic notes split up over 3 sections ; there are also separate ta...

Reviews

01 April 1953 Comments Reviews Mountain Birds. By R. A. H. Coombes. Plates by G. E. Lodge. (Penguin Books, King Penguin series, London, 1952). 4s. 6d. Mountain Birds is written and illustrated with grasp and originality, but is only permitted by the King Penguin format to deal with six...

Secondary song: a tentative classification

01 April 1953 Comments Main paper MY object in this short paper is to suggest a more exact terminology as a preliminary to further investigation of the fascinating problems of those quiet secondary songs which, since Nicholson (1927) drew attention to them, have come to be generally known...

Studies of some species rarely photographed, XLVIII. Little Bittern

01 April 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 17-24). of these fine photographs of the Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) were taken in Holland, the others in the Camargue--two localities which give some indication of the breeding range of the species close to Britain, in spite of the fact t...

The birds of Bardsey Island in 1952

01 April 1953 Comments Main paper IT is remarkable that an island as well situated as Bardsey should be so little known to ornithologists. It is now 40 years since Dr. N. F. Ticehurst paid his visits from June 12th to June 25th and from September 3rd to September 22nd, 1913, the latter wi...

Books Received

01 May 1952 Comments Editorials Bird-watchers' Delight. By John Warham (Country Life. 18s.) The Birds of the Malav Peninsula, Singapore and Penang. By A. G. Glenister. (O.U.P. 35s.) Bird Recognition, 2. By James Fisher (Pelican Books, js. 6d.)...

Letters

01 May 1952 Comments Letters --The increasing use of various types of colour-marking for the field recognition of birds must lead to confusion between individual experiments unless an authoritative central register can be compiled. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the British Tru...

Reviews

01 May 1952 Comments Reviews The Study of Instinct. By N. Tinbergen. (Oxford U.P., 1951. 25s.). Field observers have long felt the need of an authoritative, condensed summing up of the vast but fragmentary and often contradictory mass of fact and theory which has been accumulating ab...

Obituary: Cecil Robert Vesey Stoney (1878-1952)

01 May 1952 Comments Obituaries STONEY, who died on February igth, 1952, in the Isle of Man, was one of the finest field ornithologists ever produced by Ireland. Stoney was a scholar of Shrewsbury and of Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in classics. After t...

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Letter

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Secondary song: a tentative classification

Studies of some species rarely photographed, XLVIII. Little Bittern

The birds of Bardsey Island in 1952

Books Received

Letters

Reviews

Obituary: Cecil Robert Vesey Stoney (1878-1952)

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