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01 October 1974 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records A Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris was present in the gannetry on Herrnaness, Unst (Shetland), throughout the summer. Following the June report of a Fulmar Fulmarus glaci...

News and comment

01 October 1974 Comments News and comment Growth of the British and Irish list The number of full species admitted to the British and Irish list during the 17 decades which have elapsed since 1800 has varied from as few as four to as many as 27 per decade, the average being 13; Kenneth...

Letters

01 October 1974 Comments Letters ...

Notes

01 October 1974 Comments Notes Egg-laying by the Great Crested Grebe Although the behaviour of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus has been intensively studied, many questions are still open. One such question is how Great Crested Grebes lay their eggs, and whether they exhibit ...

Adaptations in the reproductive biology of the Great Crested Grebe

01 October 1974 Comments Main paper The Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus shows many striking and puzzling features in its reproductive biology, these being the subject of the present paper which is primarily concerned with adaptive aspects. My own studies on this species, which inv...

Allen's Gallinule in Britain and the Palearctic

01 October 1974 Comments Main paper Allen's Gallinule Porphyrula alleni, a tropical African bird, has but once been obtained in Britain: off the Suffolk coast in January 1902. The species was not then admitted to the British and Irish list; there was some incredulity at the concept of a ...

Bird foods and feeding-habits as subjects for Amateur research

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper I N THE STRAIGHT-FORWARD, descriptive natural history of any species, the food which it eats is an obvious item. T h e century and a half of scientific ornithology which has followed The Natural History of Selborne has seen the compilation of qualitative ...

Notes on Nesting Nightjars

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper THE following observations were made in late June and early July 1952-56, round Westleton in Suffolk, where Nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) breed not uncommonly on sandy heaths similar to those where I studied the species fifty miles N . N . W . , round...

Letters

01 July 1957 Comments Letters T H E C O L L E C T I O N O F R E C O R D S F O R ANALYSIS S I R S , -- Y o u r correspondent, Mr. T. C. Smout, raises issues of fundamental importance (antea, vol. xlix, pp. 287-288). If a paper is put forward for publication in a scientific form and pur...

Reviews

01 July 1957 Comments Reviews By MICHAEL LISTER. (Phoenix House, London, 1956). 256 pages. 45s. IT IS curious that The Bird Watcher's Reference Book should have appeared at about the same time as The Ornithologists' Guide (see antea, vol. xlix, p p . 504-505). Both have developed ind...

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July reports

News and comment

Letters

Notes

Adaptations in the reproductive biology of the Great Crested Grebe

Allen's Gallinule in Britain and the Palearctic

Bird foods and feeding-habits as subjects for Amateur research

Notes on Nesting Nightjars

Letters

Reviews

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