Recent reports

01 January 1968 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is basically concerned with the month of November, but also includes a few relevant records from early December and some belated observations relating to the July-October period...
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News and comments

01 January 1968 Comments News and comment N e w Protection of Birds Act.---The Protection of Birds Act 1967, which comes into force this month, contains a number of provisions that will affect many keen field-ornithologists and bird-photographers in England, Scotland and Wales. Any person wishing...
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Letters

01 January 1968 Comments Letters Little or White-rumped Swift ? Sirs,---The interesting article by I. J. Ferguson-Lees on Apus affinis {Brit. Birds, 60: 286-290) prompts me to raise two points. The first is the choice of the vernacular name 'White-rumped Swift' in preference to that of '...
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Notes

01 January 1968 Comments Notes Feeding relationship between mullet and Herring Gulls.--On 26th August 1967, at Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, I watched a shoal of mullet Mugil sp. swimming in ten feet of water alongside a small trawler tied up in the North Harbour. These mullet were lift...
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Diving times of grebes

01 January 1968 Comments Main paper During August to October 1966 I made regular observations on the diving of the Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podkeps which lived in a well-defined territory on the west side of Chew Valley Lake, Somerset (Ladhams, Prytherch and Simmons 1967). The results p...
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Letter

01 February 1941 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t has long been known t h a t there is a remarkable relation between t h e Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) and the common field-vole (Microtus agrestis). The common vole at apparently regular intervals increases in numbers in different loca...
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Review

01 February 1941 Comments Reviews Ritchie (1940), " An analysis of t h e influence of weather upon a migratory movement of birds," Proc, Roy, Soc, Edin., Vol. 60, P- 299.analysis of t h e d a t a relating t o t h e 1921 invasion of t h e Waxwing (Bombycitta garrulus) and t h e associated...
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Review

01 February 1941 Comments Reviews Courtship and Display among Birds. By C, R. Stonor. (Country Life, Ltd.) With 57 plates from photographs, 8s. 6d. net. No aspect of bird behaviour is more fascinating, more biologically important or offers a more promising field for study than that of dis...
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