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01 October 1961 Comments Letters The need for distinctive bird names Sirs,--In an editorial in January 1953 (Brit. Birds, 46: 1-3) you announced that you tentatively proposed to desert the current usage of that time, as represented by The Handbook, of British Birds (1938-41), and change ...

Notes

01 October 1961 Comments Notes Little Grebe eating bread.--On 3rd September 1961, we were standing by a lake in Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, when we noted that a Little Grebe (Podsceps ruficollis) showed interest at the approach of some people to feed the water fowl. As soon as they ...

An immature male Tufted Duck X Pochard hybrid

01 October 1961 Comments Main paper Perrins (1961) gave a detailed description of a duck seen at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, in December 1957 and subsequent winters; it had at one time been identified as a Lesser Scaup {Aythya affinii), but, on being shot in March i960, it was diagnosed as...

Studies of less familiar birds 114. Bonelli's Warbler

01 October 1961 Comments Main paper The Handbook because the species had not been recorded in Britain when that work was written. It was, in fact, only thirteen years ago that the first one was found over here--at Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, on 31st August 1948 (Conder and Keighley 1949)--but ...

The vocabulary of the Great Tit

01 October 1961 Comments Main paper T H E V O C A B U L A R Y of the Great Tit (Parus major) is notorious for its variety. Nicholson (1936) remarked that "a proper description of the Great Tit's language would almost require a book to itself, for no other British bird uses such a wide varie...

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...

Some Notes on the Red-Spotted Bluethroat

01 April 1956 Comments Main paper T H E following' observations on the breeding" biology of the Redspotted Bluethroat (Cyanosylvia s. svecica) were made at Abisko in Swedish Lapland from 14th June to 4th July, 1955. Abisko (68Â° 2 1 ' N . , 18Â° 49' E.) is situated at the mouth of the...

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Letters

Notes

An immature male Tufted Duck X Pochard hybrid

Studies of less familiar birds 114. Bonelli's Warbler

The vocabulary of the Great Tit

Reviews

Notes

Special Review

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

Some Notes on the Red-Spotted Bluethroat

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