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01 February 1957 Comments Letters ICELAND R E D W I N G S WINTERING SIRS,--October 1956 saw an unparalleled " i n v a s i o n " of Iceland Redwings (Turdus musicus coburni) through Fair Isle, big movements occurring on the i2th, i8th-2oth and 2zLth-25th with westerly weather. Of 333 Redwi...

Reviews

01 February 1957 Comments Reviews By K. E. L. SIMMONS. Reprinted (1956) from Ã„vicultural Magazine, vol. 61, pp. 3-13, 93-102, 131-146, 181-201, 235-253, 294-316. Obtainable from A. A. Prestwich, 61 Chase Road, London, N.14. Price 5s. M R . SIMMONS'S paper is really a miniature monogr...

Notes

01 February 1957 Comments Notes Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ãœ1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXVIII. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull

01 February 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates 9-1i) W E are fortunate to be able to publish this month photographs from Hungary of the Mediterranean Black-headed Gull (Larus melanocephalus) taken by D r . Peter Beretzk of the University of Szeged. D r . Beretzk has also been kind enough to gi...

Report on bird-ringing for 1955

01 February 1957 Comments Main paper Secretary, Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology. THIS is the nineteenthf report issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee. It combines a report on the progress of ringing during 1955 with a selected list of recoveries reported ...

Photographic studies of some less Familiar birds: LXVI. Hoopoe

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper T H E Hoopoe (Upupa epops) has already appeared in our series (vol. xlii, plates 15-17), but Mr. Doncaster's magnificent photographs are so different, and show so well the remarkable flight pattern of this bird, that we feel more than justified in publish...

Field-notes on some Asian Leaf-Warblers-II

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper T H E first part of this paper (antea, pp. 293-299) dealt with those leaf-warblers or willow warblers (Phylloscopus) which are distinguished by their pale wing-bars; in this second part I turn to those species that have no wing-bar and add notes on some v...

Special review

01 August 1955 Comments Reviews (Part II) T H E Lariformes a r e considered a separate order by the Russians and are dealt with by G. P . Dementiev. On the one hand, he writes, they approach the waders and on the other the auks. But " t h e common morphological characteristics are not n...

Notes on the Black Duck

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper T H E chances of the Black Duck (Anas rubripes) shot in Ireland on 5th February 1954 having - escaped from captivity may be regarded as negligible. Very few are kept in waterfowl collections, and although they have been bred at Slimbridge, Gloucestersh...

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Letters

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Reviews

Notes

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXVIII. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull

Report on bird-ringing for 1955

Photographic studies of some less Familiar birds: LXVI. Hoopoe

Field-notes on some Asian Leaf-Warblers-II

Special review

Notes on the Black Duck

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