Letters

01 February 1963
Comments Letters SIRS,--For exactly a fortnight--May 14th to 27th, 1913-- a mysterious bird was heard calling from the marshy border of Betton Pool, near Shrewsbury. Cartwright, the keeper, an observant man, who is familiar with the notes of all the ordinary water-fowl (w...
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Reviews

01 February 1963
Comments Reviews and XI. Jahres-berichte (1910 and 1911) der Vogelwarte Rossitten. J. Thienemann. Journal fur Orniihologie, 1911, pp. 621-707 , and 1912, pp. 133-243, 431-470; and Sonderheft, 1913. T H E reports of the Rossitten station are increasing in bulk, and each o...
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Notes

01 February 1963
Comments Notes T H E following two records of marked Starlings have so far not been published except in t h e German reports :-- Vog. Rossitten No. 108 : marked in the nest on J u n e 10th, 1909, a t Lisden, near Wolmar, Livonia, Russia. Obtained about March 20th, 1911...
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The Index of Heron Population, 1944

01 May 1945
Comments Main paper The number of reports on sites occupied by Herons in 1944, which were received at the Edward Grey Institute, was i n . Of these 77 were in England, 6 in Wales, 8 in Scotland and 20 in Ireland. We are indebted to 55 informants, of whom a considerable numbe...
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Notes from Fair Isle, 1939-45

01 May 1945
Comments Main paper IN the spring of 1944, George T. Arthur (G.T.A.), and the writer (G.W.), visited Fair Isle, Shetland, between March 28th and April 17th. In autumn, the island was again visited by the writer between August 14th and 21st. Eighty-seven different species and...
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Letters

01 May 1945
Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference t o the note under t h e above heading (antea,p. 177), i t may be of interest t o record t h a t nests of t h e Swallow without any ledge or other support below are b y no means unusual in South Gloucestershire. Of 37 nests which rem...
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