01 September 1961CommentsReviews
The Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh. By H . Albert Hochbaum. Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, U.S.A., 1959 (second edition). 207 pages; 18 photographs. $4.50. Originally published towards the end of the 1939-45 war, this was the first of a series of authorita...
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01 September 1961CommentsNotes
Manx Shearwater d i g g i n g by daylight.--At about 2.30 p.m. on 15th May 1961, I was walking in bright sunlight on a sloping cliff on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, when I heard a Manx Shearwater (Procellaria puffinus) calling from its burrow. Kneeling down w...
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01 September 1961CommentsMain paper
from dead birds. The Birds of the 'London Area since ipoo (1957, p . 133) mentions several observations of Mallard {Anas platyrhynchos) seizing and drowning House Sparrows {Passer domesticus) and on at least two occasions the victims were swallowed {Royal...
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01 September 1961CommentsMain paper
T H E P A P E R BY P I T E L K A (1961) in this issue of British Birds shows that both the Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) and the Short-billed Dowitcher (L. griseus) have occurred in the British Isles. At the request of the editors, I am ...
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01 September 1961CommentsMain paper
"Red-breasted Snipe" have been assigned to the one species, ~Limnodromus griseus, recognised by American ornithologists (see A.O.U. Check-list 1931; Peters 1934). However, the excellent work of Rowan (1932) first called attention to evidence that there we...
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01 September 1961CommentsMain paper
I S H O U L D L I K E to make some observations which may serve to cast a different light upon the subject of foot-movements in shore birds, since in the literature there is a tendency to associate this behaviour with the luring of worms to the surface of...
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01 June 1907CommentsEditorials
EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.ASSISTED BY W. P. PYCRAFT, A.L.S, M.B.O.U. EDITORIAL.BEFORE setting forth our plans, our hopes, and our ambitions for BRITISH BIRDS, we must first expr...
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01 June 1907CommentsMain paper
HOWARD SAUNDERS.FOR the readers of BRITISH BIRDS I have been asked to supply an outline of the accessions to the British List since the completion of the 2nd edition of my " Illustrated Manual of British Birds," in 1899. Even duri...
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01 June 1907CommentsMain paper
IT is perhaps fitting that the first number of BRITISH BIBDS should, contain an account of a "bird which, as a breeding species in these islands, is reduced to a solitary pair or so. Of such is the heritage of the modern ornithologist! What&n...
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