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01 June 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--A good deal of interest, and even some feeling, seems to have been aroused by the question whether in the Channel Islands the English name "Armorican Warbler"/ instead of "Dartford Warbler", can be properly applied to the race found there, Sylvia u...

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01 June 1953 Comments Reviews Twenty-fourth Report of the Devon Bird-Watching and Preservation Society, 1951. Recorder for birds--F.R.Smith. There are short reports on special enquiries : (a) Swift Migration.--Cold weather for 4 or 5 days in May caused such a remarkable disappearance...

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01 June 1953 Comments Reviews The Pocket Guide to British Birds. By R. S. R. Fitter. Illustrated by R. A. Richardson, xvi and 240 pages, 1/2 plates (64 in colour). (Collins, 1952). ais. This is a disappointing book. It is original and ambitious, and a first impression is that there is...

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01 June 1953 Comments Notes White-billed Diver in Yorkshire.--A White-billed Diver (Colymbus adamsii) was picked up in an exhausted condition near the mouth of Hedon Haven, Paull, E. Yorkshire, On February 18th, 1953. It was found by Messrs. Bunting- and Stathers of Paull and died ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed XLIX. Barnacle Goose

01 June 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 32-35) W I T H its creamy face and black crown and neck, black breast and greyish-white belly, white above and below the black tail, and grey back and scapulars barred with white-edged black, the Barnacle (Branta leucopsis) is the most pied of the...

Rare Larks and pipits at Fair Isle in 1952

01 June 1953 Comments Main paper OCTOBER 6th-7th and g t h - n t h . A. G. S. Bryson found what was undoubtedly the first of these birds on the 6th, but was unable to identify it because of its wildness and the poor light. Search next day was unproductive until Colonel R. Meinertzhagen f...

Recent advances in the recording of bird-songs

01 June 1953 Comments Main paper T H E scientific and technical advances of recent years have made possible considerable improvements in the methods used for recording; the songs and calls of birds. The preservation of the vocabulary of birds in some form or another is generally recogniz...

The reactions of some nesting passerines towards live and stuffed Jays

01 June 1953 Comments Main paper T H E Jay (Garrulus glandarius) is well-known to feed on the eggs and young of smaller birds. Indeed its behaviour in this connection is a source of much adverse comment and fantastic exaggeration. In the course of my observations of this species I have s...

Reviews

01 March 1951 Comments Reviews The Moult-migration of the Sheld-Duck. By R. A. H. Coombes (Ibis, Vol. 92, pp. 405-418). In this paper Mr. Coombes describes work on the Sheld-Duck, which he has carried on as occasion offered over a number of years and intensively throughout the summer o...

Notes

01 March 1951 Comments Notes PARTLY as a result of a request for such information (antea, vol. xliii, p. 223) we have received a certain number of records of summer visitors spending the winter of 1949-50 in the British Isles. We have also received several records of species seen un...

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Studies of some species rarely photographed XLIX. Barnacle Goose

Rare Larks and pipits at Fair Isle in 1952

Recent advances in the recording of bird-songs

The reactions of some nesting passerines towards live and stuffed Jays

Reviews

Notes

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