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01 February 1961 Comments Reviews Vara Faglar i Norden (Our Birds in the North). Second edition edited by Kai Curry-LindaM (Swedish text). Bokforlaget Natur och Cultur, Stockholm, 1959 and i960. Volumes I and II, 1022 pages; coloured and black-and-white plates, and maps, (Four volumes: Sw...

Notes

01 February 1961 Comments Notes Ring-necked Duck in Co. Armagh.--A male Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) stayed on the lake in the Public Park, Lurgan, Co. Armagh, from 20th March till 1st May i960 and was seen on many occasions by various observers. It then disappeared, but returned ...

Some photographic studies of the Nightjar

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper I N G E N E R A L W E TRY to publish photographs for their biological interest or because they illustrate points of identification, rather than for their aesthetic value. This aim is always borne in mind in the selection and presentation of the photograph...

An interpretation of variation in the dark-headed forms of the Yellow Wagtail

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper variation to be seen in the Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava). T h e chief mistake made by most investigators has been that of splitting the group into too many forms on the basis of too few specimens, the most flagrant example of this being in the monogra...

The " Lesser Scaup " problem

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper observations in Britain of ducks that were thought to be Lesser Scaups (Aythya affinis), a North American species not recorded in Europe. This note is based on a detailed examination of one of these --that first seen at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, in Dec...

Letters

01 February 1961 Comments Letters The Len Howard Appeal Sirs--All readers of Miss Len Howard's books Birds as Individuals and Living with Birds have been distressed to learn that her life's work is threatened by building on the land next to her garden sanctuary. For twenty-one years Miss ...

Reviews

01 April 1956 Comments Reviews with field assistance by GEORGE EDWARDS. (Faber and Faber, London, 1955). 128 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 18s. Birds Fighting is one of the first bird books to be illustrated mainly with electronic flash photographs. A number of them have already appeared in t...

Notes

01 April 1956 Comments Notes Purple Heron in Surrey.--On 18th September 1955 I disturbed a juvenile Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) in a patch of rather close-growing reeds at the south end of Frensham Little Pond, six miles N . W . of Haslemere, Surrey. First seen indistinctly in the ...

Special Review

01 April 1956 Comments Reviews and 1955). 162 pages and 24 p l a t e s ; 235 pages and 24 plates. Each 10s. T H E activities of the W r ildfowl Trust have expanded enormously since its inception in 1946. T h e contents of the First Annual Report, reviewed in this journal in 1948, consi...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXX. Black Kite

01 April 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 5-7) W H E N one considers how near t o Britain the Black Kite (Milvus migrans) breeds on more or less the same latitude--north Germany and the eastern shores of the Baltic, a range in northern Europe not unlike that of t h e annually recorded Red...

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Reviews

Notes

Some photographic studies of the Nightjar

An interpretation of variation in the dark-headed forms of the Yellow Wagtail

The " Lesser Scaup " problem

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Special Review

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXX. Black Kite

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