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Migration at the Smith's Knoll light-vessel, autumn 1953

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Reviews

01 July 1963 Comments Reviews The Oannet: a Bird with a History. By J. H . Gurney, F.L.S. pp. lii., 568. Many illustrations. Witlierby and Co. 27s. 6d. net. M E . J. H. G U E N E Y ' S monograph forms a n attractive volume of some 568 pages, copiously illustrated with maps and reprodu...

Letters

01 July 1963 Comments Letters Sms,--Referring to my letter on this subject published in BRITISH BIRDS, November, 1912 (Vol. VI., p. 199), I feel t h a t in fairness to Mr. O. V. Aplin, who originally recorded the breeding of t h e Longtailed Duck in Orkney in t h e Zoologist, I should...

Notes

01 July 1963 Comments Notes D U R I N G part of September and October, 1913, we were in R a t h l i n Island, off co. Antrim, a n d while there observed among others t h e following species which are seldom recorded from t h e north of Ireland. GREENLAND REDPOLL (Carduelis I. rostr...

The " British Birds" Marking Scheme

01 July 1963 Comments Main paper The number of readers who have helped in the ringing since my last report has increased to ninety, and the number of birds ringed is again much larger than previous records, as will be seen by the following figures :--Mr. H. W. Robinson once again heads t...

Breeding of the Roseate Tern in Ireland

01 July 1963 Comments Main paper FOR a considerable number of years the Roseate Tern (Sterna dougalli) has been excluded from the list of Irish breeding birds. The late Mr. Ussher, in his report on the birds of Clare Island (Proc. B. Irish Acad., Vol. XXXI., part 20, page 39), stated tha...

Obituary. Richard John Ussher. A Memoir

01 July 1963 Comments Obituaries A TRTTE conception of the position Mr. R. J. Ussher occupied amongst Irish Naturalists, cannot be readily conveyed. Amongst Irish ornithologists he was facile princeps, the " Recording Angel," and had at his finger-ends all the records of the distribution...

Reviews

01 October 1956 Comments Reviews LOCAL REPORT REVIEWS YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION: ORNITHOLOGICAL R E P O R T , for 1953 (26 pages), and 1954 (27 pages). E d i t o r : R. Chislett, Brookside, Masham, N r . Ripon. Price 2s. each. T H E very full and detailed systematic lists of 22 pages ...

Gulls Feeding on Grain

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the third week in August 1955, gulls frequented a field overlooking the Dale Estuary in St. Ishmael's, Pembrokeshire. They spent the whole day there, and fully three acres where they assembled were littered with patches of corn husks, each patch be...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXIV. Citril Finch

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 53-56) T H E Citril Finch (Carduelis citrinella) is restricted as a breeding bird to the mountain ranges of southern E u r o p e -- N . E . and S.E. Spain (chiefly.Pyrenees, Sierra de Guadarrama and Sierra Nevada), S. France (Massif Central, Pyren...

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Migration at the Smith's Knoll light-vessel, autumn 1953

Reviews

Letters

Notes

The " British Birds" Marking Scheme

Breeding of the Roseate Tern in Ireland

Obituary. Richard John Ussher. A Memoir

Reviews

Gulls Feeding on Grain

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXIV. Citril Finch

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