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Migration at the Smith's Knoll light-vessel, autumn 1953

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Reviews

01 October 1956 Comments Reviews LOCAL REPORT REVIEWS YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION: ORNITHOLOGICAL R E P O R T , for 1953 (26 pages), and 1954 (27 pages). E d i t o r : R. Chislett, Brookside, Masham, N r . Ripon. Price 2s. each. T H E very full and detailed systematic lists of 22 pages ...

Gulls Feeding on Grain

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the third week in August 1955, gulls frequented a field overlooking the Dale Estuary in St. Ishmael's, Pembrokeshire. They spent the whole day there, and fully three acres where they assembled were littered with patches of corn husks, each patch be...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXIV. Citril Finch

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 53-56) T H E Citril Finch (Carduelis citrinella) is restricted as a breeding bird to the mountain ranges of southern E u r o p e -- N . E . and S.E. Spain (chiefly.Pyrenees, Sierra de Guadarrama and Sierra Nevada), S. France (Massif Central, Pyren...

Notes on Selected Migrants at Cap Gris Nez, North France, In 1955

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the course of 1955 the writer visited Cap Gris Nez, Pas de Calais, on the north coast of France, to examine the nature of the migration which occurs on this important headland. Altogether three visits were made, the first, during 8 t h - n t h Apri...

Records of the Development of Original and Unusual Feeding Methods by Wild Passerine Birds

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper THERE is a widespread tendency among present-day students of animal behaviour to concentrate attention on the Fixed Action Patterns or "Instinctive A c t s " as the most striking and important feature of animal behaviour. And indeed it is in general true ...

Notes on Breeding of Black Redstarts in Kent

01 February 1941 Comments Main paper IN the summer of 1940 I was fortunate enough to be able to make some observations on two pairs of Black Redstarts (Phasnicurus o. gibraltariensis), which I found breeding in the Medway area in Kent. I watched the first pair ("A") as often as possible and ...

Notes

01 January 1941 Comments Notes ON November 2nd, 1940, in a field with small trees at the edge of a wood near Potter's Bar, I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity of watching a bird, which was evidently a Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor). The bird flew to the top of a bare hawt...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 January 1941 Comments Main paper Thornton - le - dale (Yorks), Bedlington (Northumb), 4.1.39, by R. M. Garnett. 7-3-4°Wetherby (Yorks), 30.1.2.39, by Preston (Lanes), --.2.40. Bootham School. Gt. Budworth (Ches), 12.11.38, Grantham (Lines), Spring, by A. W. Boyd. 194°Ditto 22.11.37. M...

Some Notes on the Scottish Crested Tit

01 January 1941 Comments Main paper THESE notes on the Scottish Crested Tit (Parus c. scoticus) are supplementary to those already published by Winifred M. Ross [i] and D. Nethersole-Thompson [2]. They are the result of four visits to the Cairngorm country in 1935, 1937, 1938 and 1940, duri...

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