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01 September 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Notes

01 September 1959 Comments Notes Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) have been known to breed on the Flannan Isles, some 20 miles west of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, since 1904 ( W . Eagle Clarke, Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1905, pp. 8-19 and 80-86). However, apart from the discovery of colo...

Obituaries: Gustav Kramer (1910-1959), James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959), John Hugh Owen (1877-1959)

01 September 1959 Comments Obituaries personal friend to many of us but also a serious blow to ornithology and to international science. To many ornithologists he was mainly known through his pioneer studies in bird navigation--which were both original and penetrating--but he did equally outs...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: C. Ruff

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper IN OUR AVIFAUNA the Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) is the most extreme example of a " l e k " b i r d ; a species which, like the Blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix) and many other gallinaceous birds, birds of paradise (Paradiseidae), Gould's Manakin (Manacus manacus) ...

Text of an automatic nest-recorder

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper By TOMOO ROYAMA of Forest-Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, Japan) VARIOUS DEVICES have been described by various authors for the purpose of registering visiting frequencies by birds to their nests (see Kendeigh, 1952 ; Gibb, 1956). An...

Variation in a population of Yellow Wagtails

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper DURING 1957 and 1958 several greyish-headed yellow wagtails, which appeared to be identical in appearance with Sykes's W a g tail (Motacilla flava beema) of western Siberia, bred at Beddington sewage farm, Hackbridge, Surrey. Since the discovery by Arnold...

Letters

01 January 1938 Comments Letters SIRS,---Miss Hibbert-Ware (Little Owl Inquiry, antea, pp. 215-216) prefaces her remarks on Little Owls 011 Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, with the w o r d s : " T h e following incident seems, however, t o contradict these conclusions [that t h e Little ...

Reviews

01 January 1938 Comments Reviews Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow. Vol. I. A Population Study of the Song Sparrow. By Margaret M. Nice. Transactions of the Linnean Society of New York, IV : April 1937. 2 47PP- 3 plates, 18 charts, 33 tables. (American Museum of Natural His...

Notes

01 January 1938 Comments Notes As there is apparently no previous record for the Outer Hebrides, it may be of interest to report that a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) was killed in North Uist on October 27th, 1937, and that I saw another at Newton Lodge, North Uist, on No...

Some records of the calls and Cries of British "Waders"

01 January 1938 Comments Main paper have often been made to put down in writing a rendering of the notes of birds. A difficulty at once presents itself from the fact that few of these renderings really correspond adequately with the original. Yet they have a certain value because they serve...

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Recent reports and News

Notes

Obituaries: Gustav Kramer (1910-1959), James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959), John Hugh Owen (1877-1959)

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: C. Ruff

Text of an automatic nest-recorder

Variation in a population of Yellow Wagtails

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Some records of the calls and Cries of British "Waders"

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