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01 May 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n t h e article on Incubation, b y Mr, Erie B. Dunlop (antea, p. 109), t h e writer s a y s : " Another bird which rears few young compared to t h e number of eggs it lays is t h e Great-erested Grebe. Four or five eggs are very frequently ...

Notes

01 May 1963 Comments Notes FOE some years now I have been paying particular attention to the nestlings of common birds. It is of course now known to all ornithologists that the parents keep the nest clean (as a general rule) by carrying away the excrement, and often by swallowing ...

The Sequence of Plumages of the Rook, With Special Reference to the Moult of the " Face."

01 May 1963 Comments Main paper I T has always been a disputed point as to whether the Rook (Oorvus f. frugihgus) gets its bare " face " by means of abrasion of the feathers or by a moult. Most ornithologists have favoured the moult theory or have regarded it as a " natural peculiarity....

Letters

01 June 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--A good deal of interest, and even some feeling, seems to have been aroused by the question whether in the Channel Islands the English name "Armorican Warbler"/ instead of "Dartford Warbler", can be properly applied to the race found there, Sylvia u...

Reviews

01 June 1953 Comments Reviews Twenty-fourth Report of the Devon Bird-Watching and Preservation Society, 1951. Recorder for birds--F.R.Smith. There are short reports on special enquiries : (a) Swift Migration.--Cold weather for 4 or 5 days in May caused such a remarkable disappearance...

Reviews

01 June 1953 Comments Reviews The Pocket Guide to British Birds. By R. S. R. Fitter. Illustrated by R. A. Richardson, xvi and 240 pages, 1/2 plates (64 in colour). (Collins, 1952). ais. This is a disappointing book. It is original and ambitious, and a first impression is that there is...

Notes

01 June 1953 Comments Notes White-billed Diver in Yorkshire.--A White-billed Diver (Colymbus adamsii) was picked up in an exhausted condition near the mouth of Hedon Haven, Paull, E. Yorkshire, On February 18th, 1953. It was found by Messrs. Bunting- and Stathers of Paull and died ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed XLIX. Barnacle Goose

01 June 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 32-35) W I T H its creamy face and black crown and neck, black breast and greyish-white belly, white above and below the black tail, and grey back and scapulars barred with white-edged black, the Barnacle (Branta leucopsis) is the most pied of the...

Rare Larks and pipits at Fair Isle in 1952

01 June 1953 Comments Main paper OCTOBER 6th-7th and g t h - n t h . A. G. S. Bryson found what was undoubtedly the first of these birds on the 6th, but was unable to identify it because of its wildness and the poor light. Search next day was unproductive until Colonel R. Meinertzhagen f...

Recent advances in the recording of bird-songs

01 June 1953 Comments Main paper T H E scientific and technical advances of recent years have made possible considerable improvements in the methods used for recording; the songs and calls of birds. The preservation of the vocabulary of birds in some form or another is generally recogniz...

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Letters

Notes

The Sequence of Plumages of the Rook, With Special Reference to the Moult of the " Face."

Letters

Reviews

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed XLIX. Barnacle Goose

Rare Larks and pipits at Fair Isle in 1952

Recent advances in the recording of bird-songs

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