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01 May 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers* names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Letters

01 May 1959 Comments Letters T H E I N F L U X O F P H A L A R O P E S IN A U T U M N 1957 S I R S , -- I wish to correct two errors which unfortunately appeared in the paper on the above subject by myself and Bernard King (antea, p p . 33-42). In the introduction on page 33 the reco...

Reviews

01 May 1959 Comments Reviews London, 1959). 244 pages; 17 photographic plates (one in colour) and 26 drawings. 25s. BASED mainly on the author's unique and fascinating, though limited, observations on a few corvine birds anting with burning materials, this is the first book to be dev...

Notes

01 May 1959 Comments Notes a visit to North Rona, Scotland, on 3rd June 1958, I found a Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) incubating three eggs of the Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus). T h e nest was that of the gull and was built among rocks on comparatively flat ground on the Fi...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: XCVII. Yellow-breasted Bunting

01 May 1959 Comments Main paper O F THE THIRTY species of true buntings (Emberiza) in the Palaearctic, only five have breeding distributions which straddle the whole width of Asia and extend into Europe, and one of these is the Yellow-breasted (E. aureola). It is true that in Europe, ou...

Observations on Arctic Terns in Spitsbergen

01 May 1959 Comments Main paper at a colony of Arctic Terns (Sterna macrura) in the vicinity of Kapp Linne, on the south side of the entrance to Isfjord, W e s t Spitsbergen (Lat. 78Â°3'N.). This colony has been described by L0venskiold (1954). It is situated on the north and east sho...

Survey of House Martin colonies in East Lancashire

01 May 1959 Comments Main paper IN THE SUMMER of 1958, the East Lancashire Ornithologists' Club carried out a local survey of the nesting-sites of the House Martin (Delichon urbica), with a view to ascertaining- their distribution and the factors controlling it. The area chosen for stud...

Reviews

01 January 1952 Comments Reviews A History of the Birds of Durham. By G. W. Temperley (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne (New Series) vol. ix, 1951). Price 15s. The County of Durham has in the past been overshadowed by its larger neighbour Northumbe...

Notes

01 January 1952 Comments Notes Effect of a snow-storm on breeding birds.--With reference to the article on this subject (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 57-59), Mr. C. E. BruceGardyne reports that in April, 1949, he had under observation nests of a Blackbird (Turdus merula) and a Song-Thrush (T...

The status of the Black-headed Gull colony at Ravenglass

01 January 1952 Comments Main paper there is an interesting association of several species of sea and shore birds breeding on the Drigg sandhills opposite Ravenglass in large numbers, the site has received little serious study and is generally known only for the size of the colony of Black-...

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Recent reports and News

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: XCVII. Yellow-breasted Bunting

Observations on Arctic Terns in Spitsbergen

Survey of House Martin colonies in East Lancashire

Reviews

Notes

The status of the Black-headed Gull colony at Ravenglass

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