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Obituaries: Norman Frederick Ticehurst

01 September 1970 Comments Main paper It is now more than a year since Dr Norman Ticehurst passed away in a nursing home at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, on 5 th December 1969, at the great age of 96 years. He had had such a long life that none of his contemporaries remained and there are few p...

Wigeon X Chiloe Wigeon hybrid resembling American Wigeon

01 April 1968 Comments Main paper It has been established that some interspecific hybrids among ducks and geese (Anatidae) strongly resemble one parent or even another species altogether, thus causing problems in field-identification. An extreme case in Britain is the hybrid Pochard Ay...

Hybrid Grey Lag X Canada Goose suggesting influence of Giant Canada Goose in Britain

01 December 1966 Comments Main paper of 1962, at Millom, south Cumberland, a male Grey Lag Goose Anser anser mated with a female Canada Goose Branta canadensis. The Canada Goose, which was perfectly normal in all its plumage characters, had flown in to join a flock of Grey Lags maintained in...

The juvenile Plumage of the Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit and further occurrences of this race in England

01 January 1965 Comments Main paper Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit ~Limosa limosa islandica in Britain and, quoting Williamson and Ruttledge (1958) in support, indicated that this form appeared t o favour the 'western and southern half of the country. This opinion was also upheld by Norrevan...

Letters

01 December 1964 Comments Letters SIRS,--While not seeking to prolong this correspondence unduly, for there is more than a grain of truth on either side, I feel that some reply is called for to Mr. Reginald Wagstaffe's letter (antea, pp. 319-320). May I point out at once that I do not dis...

Erythrism in the Eggs of British Birds.

01 September 1963 Comments Main paper ALTHOUGH many scattered notes on this subject may be found in the various ornithological journals, very little has hitherto been done to collect these separate records; and beyond a short note by Adolf Kricheldorff in the Zeitschrift fur Oologie, XIII., ...

Notes

01 May 1963 Comments Notes FOE some years now I have been paying particular attention to the nestlings of common birds. It is of course now known to all ornithologists that the parents keep the nest clean (as a general rule) by carrying away the excrement, and often by swallowing ...

Reviews

01 March 1961 Comments Reviews Atlas of European Birds. By K. H . Voous. N e l s o n , London, i960. 284 pages; 419 maps and 355 photographs. 70s. One of the post-war developments in ornithology has been the attention given to bird distribution. There has been a growing realisation of ...