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01 January 1948 Comments Notes WITH reference to my note (antea, Vol. xl, p. 209) concerning the large gathering of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in Carmarthenshire in March, 1946, I was interested to read Mr. Cadman's note which immediately followed my own. In reply to Mr. Cadman's query ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XII. The Bee-eater

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper the most exotic-looking of European birds, the Bee-eater (Merofis afiaster) is in fact a representative of a group mainly confined to the tropical regions of the Old World. So far as the western portion of its range is concerned it is a characteristically...

The breeding of Avocets in England in 1947

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper (Plates 1-3.) the summer of 1947 two small colonies of Avocets (Recurvirostra avosetta) established themselves in East Anglia. Apart from the isolated instance of two pairs nesting in Ireland in 1938 (Handbook of British Birds, Vol. iv, p. 411), this woul...

The mating ceremonial of some Doves

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper THE Handbook does not describe the coitional ceremony of the Turtle-Dove {Streptopelia t. turtur) and dismisses that of the StockDove (Columba cenas) and Rock-Dove (C. /. livid) as similar to that of the Wood-Pigeon (C. p. palnmbus). It is true that in th...

Birds of inner London

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper [The Editors regret that owing to pressure of other matter it was impossible to include this article in Vol. xl.] THE return of numerous observers to civilian life has resulted in the resumption of bird watching in London, and to a welcome increase in rec...

Report immigration of Waxwings, winter, 1946-7

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper THE invasion of Waxwings (Bombyqilla g, garrulus) into the British Isles in the winter of 1946-1947 was the heaviest recorded for which comparative details are available. The greatest numbers arrived on the east coast from Inverness-shire south to Yorkshi...

Reviews

01 November 1947 Comments Reviews British Game. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. (The New Naturalist series, Collins, London, 1946). Price 16s. This is the first of the New Naturalist series to be concerned primarily with birds. I t is not exclusively so concerned because mammals are also inclu...

Notes

01 November 1947 Comments Notes ON a fine morning in April, 1946, a number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula), Song-Thrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) and Starlings (Siurnus v. vulgaris) were watched while feeding on a large lawn of King's College, Cambridge. The Starlings spent most of the...

The Colour-Phases of the Fulmar

01 November 1947 Comments Main paper THE Handbook (Vol-, iv, p. 79) contains a statement of mine on the distribution of the colour phases of the Fulmar (Fulmarus g. glatialis) which is erroneous. It runs ;--"proportions of dark birds are-- Brit. Is. up to 2 per cent., except Shetland, where...

Studies of some species Rarely Photographed. XI. The Rufous, Sardinian and Olivaceous Warblers

01 November 1947 Comments Main paper (Plates 32-39)THE unique photographs of these three warblers were taken at Habbaniya on the Euphrates in Iraq during the war by Mr. A. Stubbs, who has contributed some useful notes on all three species as observed in that locality. All three are on the Br...

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Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XII. The Bee-eater

The breeding of Avocets in England in 1947

The mating ceremonial of some Doves

Birds of inner London

Report immigration of Waxwings, winter, 1946-7

Reviews

Notes

The Colour-Phases of the Fulmar

Studies of some species Rarely Photographed. XI. The Rufous, Sardinian and Olivaceous Warblers

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