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01 September 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Vosges mountains in France during the first World War earthenware pots especially designed for sparrows to nest in were to be seen on the walls of a great many farms and I have no doubt the practice still persists. These served a double purp...

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01 September 1953 Comments Reviews Rare and Extinct Birds of Britain. By Ralph Whitlock. (Phcenix House, London, 1953). 21s. I t is open to question whether a satisfactory book can be written on the subject of our rare and extinct birds. To contribute anything original to knowledge in this...

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01 September 1953 Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

01 September 1953 Comments Main paper MAY (1949) asserts that as pair-formation behaviour patterns " a r e not related to the sex act, which is the criterion for 'sexual behaviour' " , pair-formation is not sexual behaviour, at any rate in the Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) which he...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. LI. Arctic Warbler

01 September 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 48-55) P. O. SWANBERG obtained these unique photographs of the littlestudied Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis) in 1952 in Swedish Lapland which is the north-western outpost in this bird's breeding-range. The typical race, often known as Evers...

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01 December 1942 Comments Letters SIRS,--The interesting and unusual behavtour of a Moorhen (Galhnula ch, chloropus) continually remaining in a semi-submerged position (antea, Vol. xxxvi, p. 57) whilst swimming about, and giving the impression of " not being able to come up " is almost ce...

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01 December 1942 Comments Notes a short visit to Lundy in September, 1942, we identified a Lapland Bunting {Cakarius lapponicus) on the high barren area at the north end of the island on September ioth. The species has not previously been met with on Lundy, nor in the county of Devon. ...

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper IN England a hundred years ago the Black Redstart (Phcenicurus o. gibraltariensis) was only a rare and occasional visitor, but by 1871 Newton in Yarrell was able to give it as a regulÃ¤r winter visitor to south-west England and the Isle of Wight, less r...

Comparative Prices of Game and Wildfowl in 1512, 1757, 1807, 1922, 1941 and 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper THE six comparative 'price-lists printed at the end of this article are mainly of ornithological interest in so far as they show the decline in numbers of certain species of British Birds : at the same time it must be pointed out that the terminology empl...

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01 November 1942 Comments Reviews An Ornithologist's Field Note Book. By Sir Hugh Gladstone. 6th Edition revised. (Truslove & Hanson). 6d. T H I S booklet (5 x 3 ins.) contains a list of the English names of all the regulÃ¤r breeding British birds, winter visitors and passage-migrants. ...

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Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

Studies of some species rarely photographed. LI. Arctic Warbler

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Notes

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

Comparative Prices of Game and Wildfowl in 1512, 1757, 1807, 1922, 1941 and 1942

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