Recent reports

01 October 1955
Comments News and comment [These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] This summary is mainly concerned with the period from 21st July to 10th September. Highlights included a heavy passage of northern waders, a striking movement of Black Terns, the now annual ...
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News and comment

01 October 1955
Comments News and comment Annual Conference.--The Annual Conference of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club will be held at the Hotel Dunblane (formerly Dunblane Hydro Hotel), Perthshire, from 25 th to 27th October. Guest speakers will be Dr. Kai CurryLindahl, from Stockholm, on 'Bi...
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Request for information

01 October 1955
Comments Editorials Status and distribution of the Chough.--There ate indications that the Chough {Pyrrbocorax pyrrhocorax) has been increasing during the last decade in Wales and the Isle of Man, but in the absence of any systematic survey there is no definite evidence. The...
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Letters

01 July 1954
Comments Letters SIRS,--Records of Scaup (Aythya marila) appearing inland in Yorkshire this winter (1953-54) have been unusually numerous and I should be interested to know if these occurrences have been peculiar to Yorkshire only or whether this species has been recorded...
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Request for information

01 July 1954
Comments Editorials Large passage of Black Terns.--In 1946, 1948, 1949 and 1950 interesting spring passages of Black Terns (Chlidonias niger) were noted in the British Isles, and the records were summarized and discussed in British Birds (antea, vol. xl, pp. 24-26, 93 and 37...
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Reviews

01 July 1954
Comments Reviews The Birds of Kent. By James M. Harrison. (Witherby, London, 1953). 2 vols. ^J8.8.o. IN addition to his own observations and those of numerous correspondents, Dr. Harrison includes practically everything that has been published relating to Kentish birds. T...
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Notes

01 July 1954
Comments Notes Baginton near Coventry on January i 5 t h - i 7 t h , 1953, Mr. G. H . Forster and I observed a drake Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca carolinensis) a m o n g the large flock of common Teal (A. c. crecca) that regularly winter there. The bird was watched fo...
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Protocalliphora in birds nests

01 July 1954
Comments Main paper DIPTEROUS flies of the genus Protocalliphora belong- to the Calliphoridae, a family in which most species are carrion-feeders. In this genus the larvae are ecto-parasites of nestling birds. The adult flies lay eggs in birds' nests and when the larvae hatc...
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