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01 October 1961 Comments Letters The need for distinctive bird names Sirs,--In an editorial in January 1953 (Brit. Birds, 46: 1-3) you announced that you tentatively proposed to desert the current usage of that time, as represented by The Handbook, of British Birds (1938-41), and change ...

Notes

01 October 1961 Comments Notes Little Grebe eating bread.--On 3rd September 1961, we were standing by a lake in Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, when we noted that a Little Grebe (Podsceps ruficollis) showed interest at the approach of some people to feed the water fowl. As soon as they ...

An immature male Tufted Duck X Pochard hybrid

01 October 1961 Comments Main paper Perrins (1961) gave a detailed description of a duck seen at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, in December 1957 and subsequent winters; it had at one time been identified as a Lesser Scaup {Aythya affinii), but, on being shot in March i960, it was diagnosed as...

Studies of less familiar birds 114. Bonelli's Warbler

01 October 1961 Comments Main paper The Handbook because the species had not been recorded in Britain when that work was written. It was, in fact, only thirteen years ago that the first one was found over here--at Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, on 31st August 1948 (Conder and Keighley 1949)--but ...

The vocabulary of the Great Tit

01 October 1961 Comments Main paper T H E V O C A B U L A R Y of the Great Tit (Parus major) is notorious for its variety. Nicholson (1936) remarked that "a proper description of the Great Tit's language would almost require a book to itself, for no other British bird uses such a wide varie...

Report of the bird-ringing committee: progress for 1937

01 April 1938 Comments Main paper the period now under review, on June ist, 1937, the control of the former British Birds Marking Scheme was transferred to the Bird-Ringing Committee appointed for the purpose by the British Trust for Ornithology, under arrangements which have already been...

The index of Heron population, 1937

01 April 1938 Comments Main paper FOR the fourth year in succession* we were able in 1937 to keep accurate record of the fortunes of a large part of the breeding population of Herons {Ardea c. cinerea). It can hardly be said that the results have been dramatic. In England and Wales as a w...

Black Redstart breeding in an Eastern county of England

01 April 1938 Comments Main paper (Plate 13.) IT is only comparatively recently that the breeding of the Black Redstart (Phtznicurus 0. gibraltariensis) in the British Isles has been authentically recorded. During the spring and summer of 1937 a number of observers had the good fortune to...

Letters

01 April 1938 Comments Letters SIRS,--Since a t one or two widely separated localities in t h e Midlands this bird appears t o be on t h e increase, a n d in places is actually re-establishing itself after years of absence, i t h a s been thought desirable t o hold a thorough inquiry i...

Reviews

01 April 1938 Comments Reviews Handbuch der Deutschen Vogelkunde. Edited by G. Niethammer. Bd. i . Passeres (Leipzig : Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1937). T H E late Ernst Hartert was so impressed with t h e plan of the Practical Handbook t h a t after this had been taken in hand h...

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An immature male Tufted Duck X Pochard hybrid

Studies of less familiar birds 114. Bonelli's Warbler

The vocabulary of the Great Tit

Report of the bird-ringing committee: progress for 1937

The index of Heron population, 1937

Black Redstart breeding in an Eastern county of England

Letters

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