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01 September 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was generally a cold, wet month, with an interesting period between 8th and i ith as a depression moved east across Britain bringing rain and low cloud with east and north-east winds. Many...

News and comment

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment Grants for nature conservation The Nature Conservancy Council announced on i ith August that it had just awarded 90 grants, totalling £50,000, to encourage nature conservation by voluntary bodies, local authorities and private individuals. The large...

Reviews

01 May 1938 Comments Reviews De Nederlandsche Vogels. Bewerkt door Dr. C. Eykman, P . A, Hens, Jhr Dr. Ir F . C. van H e u m , Dr. C. G. B. t e n Kate, J. G. van Marie, G. van der Meer, M. J. Tekke en Tsj. Gs. de Vries. Eerste Deel. (Wageningen : Boek en Handelsdrukkerij). This is th...

Notes

01 May 1938 Comments Notes ON March 3rd, 1938, at Cambridge sewage farm we observed a Pipit which we were able to identify as a Water-Pipit (Anthus s. spinoletta). It was first seen feeding amongst other birds (Meadow-Pipits, Pied Wagtails and waders) on one of the tanks and its d...

Notes from reservoirs and Sewage farms. Staffordshire Reservoirs, 1937

01 May 1938 Comments Main paper THE following notes refer to Bellfields Reservoir except when Galley Pool is specially mentioned. Once again Mr. H. G. Alexander has kindly sent me his notes and others made by Miss C. K. James and Messrs. G. M. King, H. LI. Wilson and C. Wilson.H O O D ...

Birds of Inner London

01 May 1938 Comments Main paper 1937 there was one addition to the list published in this magazine in 1929 (Vol. XXII, pp. 222-244) a n ( i subsequently extended.* The list, excluding doubtful occurrences, now numbers 141 species or sub-species.A Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps g. griseigen...

Further notes on the habits of Sheld-Duck

01 May 1938 Comments Main paper IN British Birds for January, 1 9 3 5 (Vol. X X V I I I . , pp. 218-224), the writer gave an account of the courtship and other habits of Sheld-Duck (Tadorna tadorna). Since then other matters of interest in the life-history of this species have come unde...

Breeding-habits of the Dunlin

01 May 1938 Comments Main paper THE Dunlin (Calidris a. schinzii) breeds on the salt marshes fronting the Cumberland side of the Solway Firth and on the fells of the north Pennines. On the salt marshes the breeding ground is the level area of short grass intersected with little creeks a...

Letters

01 May 1938 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have read with great interest the note upon the song of t h e Chaffinch (Fringilla c. gengleri) in The Handbook of British Birds especially in reference t o t h e " alternative call " a s described byMr. H. G. Alexander, i.e.,the single pro...

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