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01 May 1957 Comments Notes Vagrants at Skokholm in September 1956.--At Skokholm the period gth-i2th September 1956 was one of outstanding interest, with consid'erable variety of common migrants and four species which are major rarities in Wales. T w o juvenile Ortolan Buntings (Emb...

Field-notes on some birds of South-East Europe: LXXXI. Ortolan Bunting

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper T H E S E notes are compiled from field-observations made by the writers in south-east Europe in the autumn of 1956. W e travelled via Venice and the Adriatic (28th August-2nd September), through Greece (Athens, 3rd-5th September; Delphi, 6th-8th Septembe...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper Photographed by K. (Plates 33-35) only a vagrant in Britain, the Ortolan Bunting (Emberisa hortulana) has a wide distribution in the Palaearctic region, breeding in most parts of Continental Europe from Spain in the south to the arctic circle in the north...

The past and present status of the Buzzard in the British Isles

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper MYXOMATOSIS spread from the Continent of Europe to the British Isles late in the summer of 1953. The Buzzard (Buteo buteo), which was known to feed extensively on Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), was likely to be indirectly affected by the disease, so tha...

Reviews

01 May 1957 Comments Reviews By a Committee of the London Natural History Society (Chairman: R. C. Homes). (Collins, London, 1957). 305 pages, 40 photographs, 5 maps. 30s. O F THE MANY and varied ways in which man has stamped his history and methods of life upon the surface of the w...

Reviews

01 March 1938 Comments Reviews Report on the Birds of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and S. Staffordshire, 1936. Prepared under the direction of the Birmingham Bird Club. is. 6d. (H. G. Alexander, 144, Oak Tree Lane, Birmingham, 29.) T H I S , t h e third annual, Report is an advance on...

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01 March 1938 Comments Notes I HAVE paid particular attention to the singing of Crossbills (Loxia c. curvirostra) for some years, on and off, and I find that the song can be divided into four main varieties. In attempting to describe these songs below, I use the two sound descriptio...

Recovery of marked birds

01 March 1938 Comments Main paper Longtown (Cumb), 1.3.33, b y Stamford Bridge W. Bell. 27.12.37.25.11.36. 5.1.37. 26.12.36. 30.11.36. 13.12.36. 26.10.35. 27.11.36. 30.12.36. 9.11.36. 14.12.35. 14.12.36. 28.12.35. 28.11.36. 19.11.37. 18.11.35. 19.11.36. 10.12.36. 27.12.35. 13.12.35. 24.9...

The breeding behaviour of Temminck's Stint

01 March 1938 Comments Main paper (Plate 12.) IN view of the recent attempt of Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii) to breed in Scotland (antea Vol. XXVIII, p. 97) and of the general paucity of information in regard to the breeding biology of this species, some notes which the authors ...

The late Lieut. Francis A. Monckton

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Field-notes on some birds of South-East Europe: LXXXI. Ortolan Bunting

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds

The past and present status of the Buzzard in the British Isles

Reviews

Reviews

Notes

Recovery of marked birds

The breeding behaviour of Temminck's Stint

The late Lieut. Francis A. Monckton

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