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01 November 1963 Comments Notes IT has long been known that, in the Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) the mandibles cross indifferently on either side in different individuals. Recently, however, for a special purpose, I desired to ascertain whether or not individuals having the man...

Manx Ornithological Notes: 1912-13.

01 November 1963 Comments Main paper THE following notes continue the Manx record from the end of the period covered by the article in BRITISH BIRDS, Vol. V., pp. 300-4, to the end of the year 1913. There is still, probably, a lack of information about some of our smaller species, but the Ye...

A Student of Gulls.

01 November 1963 Comments Main paper THAT Ornithology sustained a heavy potential loss by the death of Ewen Kennedy, in 1909, a t the early age of twenty-eight, is evident by a perusal of his notes, put together in beautiful form* by the loving hand of his sister, Mrs. Maedonald. Beyond a ch...

50th Anniversary messages

01 June 1957 Comments Main paper FURTHER to mark our 50 years of continuous publication, we invited comments from a number of distinguished ornithologists, chiefly Editors of other journals, both in this country and abroad. Below, we print a selection of the replies we received.From M. l...

Editorial: The First Fifty Years

01 June 1957 Comments Editorials Witherby approached many friends and fellow-ornithologists to support a monthly magazine devoted entirely to the study of British birds, which had long been in his mind. A note in his handwriting records how, at the British Ornithologists' Club that Janu...

Notes

01 June 1957 Comments Notes have asked me to comment briefly on the remarkable photograph of the Penguin-dance of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) published in this issue (plate 48). Comparatively few observers have been fortunate enough to "witness this elaborate form o...

The Dipper's Winking

01 June 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates 46-47) I HAVE had the opportunity in the last few years to study Dippers (Cinclus cinclus) at very close quarters while photographing them, and in fact have tamed these birds to such a degree that they have sat on my wrist to feed their young betw...

Nest-Hole excavation by the Bee-eater

01 June 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates 43-45) T H E FOLLOWING observations were made at nesting--colonies of Bee-eaters (Merops apiaster) in the Camargue, France, in May 1936 and 1954, and in the Coto Doflana, Spain, in late April and May 1952 and 1956. The French colony of about 20 pa...

Sewage-farms as bird-habitats

01 June 1957 Comments Main paper FROM THE POINT of view of the birds that visit our sewage-farms, attracted there by food of unusual abundance and sapidity, and of the watchers who in turn are attracted by the birds, the modernization of one after another of these artificial marshes is l...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXXII. Great Grey Shrike

01 June 1957 Comments Main paper T H E TYPICAL SHRIKES (Lanius spp.) a r e a widespread genus that is represented in Europe, Asia, Africa and N . America by some 22 species--that is treating t h e Brown, Isabelline and Red-backed Shrikes (L. cristatus-isabellinus-collurio) as conspecific...

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Notes

Manx Ornithological Notes: 1912-13.

A Student of Gulls.

50th Anniversary messages

Editorial: The First Fifty Years

Notes

The Dipper's Winking

Nest-Hole excavation by the Bee-eater

Sewage-farms as bird-habitats

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXXII. Great Grey Shrike

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