Recent reports and News

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Letters

01 February 1947
Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference to Colonel Ryves's note (antea, Vol. xxxix, p. 375} oa a clutch of two eggs only, of the Blackbird (Turdus »». merula), I wish to point out that this number of eggs for a full clutch is not extremely abnormal. I cannot but thin...
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Reviews

01 February 1947
Comments Reviews South-Eastern Bird Report, being an Account of Bird-Life in Kent, Surrey and Sussex during 1944. Edited by Ralph Whitlock. Ditto (including Hampshire) for 1945. THE 1944 South-Eastern Report, delayed by printing difficulties, was not available when our no...
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