Letters

01 June 1963
Comments Letters SIRS,--Having paid some attention to t h e manner in which t h e face of t h e Rook becomes bare, I m a y state t h a t in t h e main m y observations a n d specimens confirm Mr. Witherby's conclusions. But, with regard to this species n o t breeding in t...
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Notes

01 June 1963
Comments Notes IN August I received a letter from Mr. A. C. Theron dated from " Riet Vallei, District Lindley, O.F.S." stating that a Swallow had been captured bearing a ring with my name and address. As Mr. Theron gave neither the number of the ring nor the date of cap...
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Recovery of Marked Birds.

01 June 1963
Comments Main paper T H E annual article reporting progress for 1913 will appear, it is hoped, in the n e x t number. The following have kindly sent in subscriptions towards the expenses of the Marking Scheme since t h e last acknowledgment was made :-- Miss C. M. Acland, Mr...
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Letters

01 August 1954
Comments Letters SIRS,--A little confusion was caused on the Isle of May in 1953 by people claiming to assign Bluethroats (Luscinia svecica) to the White-spotted race (L. s. cyanecula) on the strength of wing-measurements and the relative lengths of the primaries. They we...
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Reviews

01 August 1954
Comments Reviews Birds (in Hampshire, 1952). By Edwin Cohen. From Proc. Hampshire Field Club and Arch. Soc, vol. xviii, pt. 2 (1953). HAMPSHIRE is beyond question the weakest point in south coast ornithology, and, although Mr. Edwin Cohen in these two brief annotated list...
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Reviews

01 August 1954
Comments Reviews The Heron. By Frank A. Lowe. (Collins, London, 1954). 18s. FROM the time of the Early Egyptians, as the author tells us, the Heron has been referred to in literature and represented in art. As a figure in mythology, an item of food usually in the luxury c...
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Notes

01 August 1954
Comments Notes Mr. Gord on Greeves found the nest of a large bird of prey on a sea-cliff in County Antrim. At first he thought it was the nest of a Buzzard (Buteo buteo) but the young seemed very large, as did one of the parents which appeared only in the distance. W h ...
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