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01 May 1957 Comments Notes Vagrants at Skokholm in September 1956.--At Skokholm the period gth-i2th September 1956 was one of outstanding interest, with consid'erable variety of common migrants and four species which are major rarities in Wales. T w o juvenile Ortolan Buntings (Emb...

Field-notes on some birds of South-East Europe: LXXXI. Ortolan Bunting

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper T H E S E notes are compiled from field-observations made by the writers in south-east Europe in the autumn of 1956. W e travelled via Venice and the Adriatic (28th August-2nd September), through Greece (Athens, 3rd-5th September; Delphi, 6th-8th Septembe...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper Photographed by K. (Plates 33-35) only a vagrant in Britain, the Ortolan Bunting (Emberisa hortulana) has a wide distribution in the Palaearctic region, breeding in most parts of Continental Europe from Spain in the south to the arctic circle in the north...

The past and present status of the Buzzard in the British Isles

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper MYXOMATOSIS spread from the Continent of Europe to the British Isles late in the summer of 1953. The Buzzard (Buteo buteo), which was known to feed extensively on Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), was likely to be indirectly affected by the disease, so tha...

Reviews

01 May 1957 Comments Reviews By a Committee of the London Natural History Society (Chairman: R. C. Homes). (Collins, London, 1957). 305 pages, 40 photographs, 5 maps. 30s. O F THE MANY and varied ways in which man has stamped his history and methods of life upon the surface of the w...

ON THE BREEDING-HABITS OF THE MANX SHEARWATER, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS INCUBATION- AND FLEDGING-PERIODS

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REVIEWS: Report on Somerset Birds, 1928; Report of the Cambridge Ornithological Club, 1928

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LETTERS

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Letters

01 January 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--May I be spared a little space to invite the attention of your readers to the Annual Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. This Report, the last issue of which you were good enough t...

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Field-notes on some birds of South-East Europe: LXXXI. Ortolan Bunting

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds

The past and present status of the Buzzard in the British Isles

Reviews

ON THE BREEDING-HABITS OF THE MANX SHEARWATER, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS INCUBATION- AND FLEDGING-PERIODS

NOTES

REVIEWS: Report on Somerset Birds, 1928; Report of the Cambridge Ornithological Club, 1928

LETTERS

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