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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...

Reviews

01 October 1947 Comments Reviews More Birds of the Day. By Eric Hosking and Cyril Newberry. (Collins, London, 1946). 125 6d. net. The great popularity of t h e authors' Birds of the Day has led t h e m to follow this up with a sequel providing a no less admirable picture gallery of Briti...

Notes

01 October 1947 Comments Notes ON June 22nd, 1947, in a wood just outside Calais, I had a good view of a male Golden Oriole (Oriolus 0. oriolus), sitting in sunlight on a bare twig of a lombardy poplar, about 30 feet from the ground. It called continuously for about eight minutes. The...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. X. The Purple Heron

01 October 1947 Comments Main paper (Plates 26-31), THE striking series of photographs of the Purple Heron (Ardea p, purpurea) now published, were taken in the district of the Camargue (Rhone Delta) in May and June of the present year, 1947. This species is characteristically a reed-bed ne...

Some notes on the Spectacled Warbler in the Maltese Islands

01 October 1947 Comments Main paper September 1941 until July 1945,1 was stationed in Malta and was able to devote much of my spare time to studying the bird-life of the islands. Malta, together with the sister isles of Gozo, Comino and Fihia, is primarily of interest to the ornithologist a...

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Letter

Reviews

Reviews

Secondary song: a tentative classification

Studies of some species rarely photographed, XLVIII. Little Bittern

The birds of Bardsey Island in 1952

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. X. The Purple Heron

Some notes on the Spectacled Warbler in the Maltese Islands

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