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01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Letters

01 December 1955 Comments Letters Further remarks on discoloration in House Sparrows Sirs,--The observations of C. J. O. Harrison (Brit. Birds, 56: 296-297) on 'industrial' discoloration in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and other birds prompt us to record information on an allied pro...

Reviews

01 December 1955 Comments Reviews A Mosaic of Islands. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1963. 183 pages index; 22 black-and-white photographs; text-drawings and m - p s . 21s. The more remote islands around our coast have always held a great f...

Notes

01 December 1955 Comments Notes Peregrines rearing young Kestrels.--On n t h April 1963 W. N. Charles and I flushed a Peregrine {Fako peregrinus) from its eyrie in an old Raven (Corvus corax) nest in the Dumfriesshire hills. There were four eggs, one of which we took (under licence) for...

Obituary: Oliver G. Pike (1877-1963)

01 December 1955 Comments Obituaries W I T H T H E D E A T H O F Oliver Pike on 17th October 1963, at the age of 86, an era came to an end. He was the last of the great pioneers who, with Richard and Cherry Kearton and R. B. Lodge, began during the 1890's to take pictures of wild life in its...

The Pheasant in Wales

01 December 1955 Comments Main paper I N A S E R I E S O F P A P E R S published chiefly in this journal (Matheson 1953-60) an attempt was made to illustrate, by means of records from Welsh gamebooks, the changes and fluctuations in the population of the Partridge {Perdix perdix), an indigen...

Observations on the Black-winged Kite in Portugal with preliminary notes on its status

01 December 1955 Comments Main paper many, if not most, ornithologists about the Black-winged Kite (Elanm caeruleus) as a European breeding species. Indeed, even a superficial survey of the literature shows that this doubt has always been present, and the majority of books on European birds ...

The moult migration of the Shelduck to Bridgwater Bay, Somerset

01 December 1955 Comments Main paper The Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire T H E A N N U A L M O U L T of the Shelduck (Tadorna tadornd) results in the simultaneous loss of all the flight feathers, but before this happens the great majority of the north European population migrates...

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Letters

Looking back

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: Oliver G. Pike (1877-1963)

The Pheasant in Wales

Observations on the Black-winged Kite in Portugal with preliminary notes on its status

The moult migration of the Shelduck to Bridgwater Bay, Somerset

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