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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Review

01 November 1950 Comments Letters Bird Life. By Edward A. Armstrong. (Lindsay Drummond, 1949.) 12/6. Field Study Books : The Lapwing. By E. A. R. Ennion. (Methuen, 1949.) 6/-. These two books, though differing in approach and in scope, have the same audience and end in view. They have bot...
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Notes

01 November 1950 Comments Notes ON January 4th, 1950, we were standing in the road beside Bolney Grange Ltd., Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, watching about 30-40 WoodPigeons (Columba palumbus) feeding under a tree, when we heard the harsh calls of Carrion Crows (Corvus corone). We looked up, ...
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Birds of Inner London, 1949

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper " A List of the Birds of Inner London " was published in 1929 by A. Holte Macpherson {vide antea, vol. xxii, pp. 222-244) and notes on changes in status and of unusual occurrences have appeared annually in British Birds since then. The volume of records r...
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