Reviews

01 May 1956
Comments Reviews By L. S. V. and U . M. VENABLES. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1955). 391 p a g e s ; 8 photographic plates; 3 maps. 30s. T H E islands of Shetland, meeting-place of northern and southern elements in our fauna, and maritime outpost of a region where strik...
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Notes

01 May 1956
Comments Notes amount of time was spent in 1955, and to a lesser extent in 1954, in an attempt to plot the breeding distribution of Red-backed Shrikes (Lanius collurio) in parts of the New Forest, Hampshire. It is frequently cited in the literature that this bird is bot...
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Quail in the British Isles, 1950-53

01 May 1956
Comments Main paper W H E N it appeared that 1953 was a good year for Quail (Coturnix coturnix), the Editors of British Birds decided that it would be useful for the survey that had been made up to 1949 (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 257-276) to be continued to 1953 and they therefo...
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