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01 November 1974 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records August was dominated by weather from the Atlantic, a series of depressions crossing Britain and producing generally cool and unsettled conditions with temperatures below average and rainfal...

News and comment

01 November 1974 Comments News and comment Rookery census The last national survey of the British Rook population was undertaken by the British Trust for Ornithology in 1945; much data was gathered (and is still on file), though rather little was published. Various local surveys carried...

Letters

01 November 1974 Comments Letters Oiled seabirds successfully cleaning their plumage I was interested to read the note by T. R. Birkhead, Clare Lloyd and P. Corkhill concerning the successful cleaning of oiled plumage by seabirds (Brit. Birds, 66: 535-537). Instances of this be...

Reviews

01 November 1974 Comments Reviews The Cairngorms. Their Natural History and Scenery. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson and Adam Watson. Collins, London, 1974. 286 pages; 7 colour and 36 black-and-white photographs; 17 maps and text-figures. £3.50. Everything about the Cairn...

Notes

01 November 1974 Comments Notes Kestrel taking prey from Short-eared Owl On 20th January 1974, Mrs M. Perkins and I watched a Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus hunting in the usual manner over rough grass on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. It dropped into the grass, rose with a small...

Obituaries: Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn, MA (1913-1974), Ludwig Koch, MBE (1881-1974)

01 November 1974 Comments Obituaries Professor M. F. M. Meiklejohn died in a Glasgow hospital on 14th May 1974, after a short illness. Maury Meiklejohn was of Scottish parentage and ancestry, from a scholastic family noted for intellectual ability. His grandfather, J. M. D. Meikle...

The birds of Regent's Park, London, 1959-68

01 November 1974 Comments Main paper Regent's Park has been visited by London ornithologists for at least 130 years. Since 1945 it has been adopted as a place of regular observation by many observers, notably Stanley Cramp who, in 1945 and 1947, made the first systematic study of the bird...

Reviews

01 April 1956 Comments Reviews with field assistance by GEORGE EDWARDS. (Faber and Faber, London, 1955). 128 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 18s. Birds Fighting is one of the first bird books to be illustrated mainly with electronic flash photographs. A number of them have already appeared in t...

Notes

01 April 1956 Comments Notes Purple Heron in Surrey.--On 18th September 1955 I disturbed a juvenile Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) in a patch of rather close-growing reeds at the south end of Frensham Little Pond, six miles N . W . of Haslemere, Surrey. First seen indistinctly in the ...

Special Review

01 April 1956 Comments Reviews and 1955). 162 pages and 24 p l a t e s ; 235 pages and 24 plates. Each 10s. T H E activities of the W r ildfowl Trust have expanded enormously since its inception in 1946. T h e contents of the First Annual Report, reviewed in this journal in 1948, consi...

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August reports

News and comment

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Obituaries: Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn, MA (1913-1974), Ludwig Koch, MBE (1881-1974)

The birds of Regent's Park, London, 1959-68

Reviews

Notes

Special Review

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