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01 June 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--I am grateful to Mr. Ivan M. Goodbody for his comments (antea, p. 32) on my paper on the nocturnal migration of thrushes (antea, vol. xlvi, pp. 37°-374)' It is indeed possible that the coasting movement at Dun Laoghaire was unnatural. With the com...

Reviews

01 June 1954 Comments Reviews The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland. Report for 1952. Compiled by R. A. O. Hickling and R. E. Pochin and obtainable from the former at 223, Swithland Lane, Rothley Plain, Leics. 24 pp. with map. 2s. 6d. CLASSIFIED notes, given in the Wetmore order, co...

Notes

01 June 1954 Comments Notes female Scaup (Ay thy a tnarila) occurred at Cheddar reservoir, Somerset, on November 26th, 1952. The party had suddenly surfaced not more than twenty yards from the observer, and apparently becoming alarmed they quickly swam away, beginning as they did so...

Further notes on the birds of Bardsey Island

01 June 1954 Comments Main paper SINCE the appearance of my earlier paper (antea, vol. xlvi, pp. 131137) additional notes have been received from several q u a r t e r s . Sir Geoffrey H a w o r t h w a s on the island on June 22nd and 23rd, 1932; Charles Oldham and Bertram Lloyd were t...

Census of Swallows in the Sedbergh area

01 June 1954 Comments Main paper ...

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain 1951-53

01 June 1954 Comments Main paper T H I S paper records the increase and spread of the Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) since the last report on its status, in 1950 (antea, vol. xlv, pp. 61-64). Apart from the first occurrence at Tring, in 1938, the Little Ringed Plover has now br...

The spring migration of the Willow Warbler in 1952

01 June 1954 Comments Main paper T H E study of bird-migration in the British area has received a great impetus since the war through the establishment of a number of bird observatories at widely separated points, the manning of these stations by competent amateur watchers during migrati...

Requests for Information

01 June 1952 Comments Editorials 224 REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION. (i) A number of readers have already reported unusually early arrivals of summer migrants in 1952, especially in March. As a general rule we have regarded records of this sort as being the province of local reports, but such ...

Notes

01 June 1952 Comments Notes 13th, 1951, Campbell Ballantyne told G. E. Wooldridge of two warblers that he had been watching that morning. Although obviously warblers their identity was puzzling. He gave a fairly full description of the birds seen, the most striking feature being, "v...

Mid-season movements of Swifts in Sussex

01 June 1952 Comments Main paper IN his article, " T h e Movements of Swifts in S u m m e r " (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 146-152), H. G. Hurrell states that " t h e r e is evidence which suggests the possibility of an influx from the Continent about the end of J u n e " . My own observations...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

Further notes on the birds of Bardsey Island

Census of Swallows in the Sedbergh area

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain 1951-53

The spring migration of the Willow Warbler in 1952

Requests for Information

Notes

Mid-season movements of Swifts in Sussex

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