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01 March 1951 Comments Reviews The Moult-migration of the Sheld-Duck. By R. A. H. Coombes (Ibis, Vol. 92, pp. 405-418). In this paper Mr. Coombes describes work on the Sheld-Duck, which he has carried on as occasion offered over a number of years and intensively throughout the summer o...

Notes

01 March 1951 Comments Notes PARTLY as a result of a request for such information (antea, vol. xliii, p. 223) we have received a certain number of records of summer visitors spending the winter of 1949-50 in the British Isles. We have also received several records of species seen un...

Obituary: E. W. Hendy

01 March 1951 Comments Obituaries ERNEST WILLIAM HENDY, who died in his 78th year on November 1st, 1950, brought a poet's mind and a classical training to the study of birds and wild life, and his approach bore fruit in a rare degree of insight into Nature, matched by an originality and ...

Sheld-Duck On The Tay Estuary

01 March 1951 Comments Main paper progress has been made in unravelling the tangled life-history of Sheld-duck (Tadorna tadoma). Hoogerheide and Kraak (1942) have shown that many Western European birds assemble in July on the great tidal flats behind the islands fringing the Dutch and Ger...

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01 January 1945 Comments Reviews The Duck Decoys of Essex. By W. E. Glegg. Essex Naturalist, Vol. xxvii, 1943-4, PP- 191-207 and 211-225, MR. W. E . GLEGG in this scholarly paper brings up to date his extensive knowledge of t h e Essex decoys and includes an interesting account of the ar...

Notes

01 January 1945 Comments Notes reference to Capt. A. C. Fraser's note on this subject (antea, p. 94), I have the following note in my diary for December ioth, 1943 :-- Watched three Bullfinches (one male and two females) They were low down on Snowberry (Symphoricarpus) shrubs and at t...

Obituary: Jim Vincent (1883-1944)

01 January 1945 Comments Obituaries MANY of our readers will have learned with deep regret of the death of Jim Vincent, which took place at Norwich after a short illness on November 4th, As head keeper on Lord Desborough's Whiteslea estate at Hickling, Vincent was known to ornithologists al...

Departure of Swifts

01 January 1945 Comments Main paper THE arrival and departure of migrants are usually recorded by the dates upon which the first and last birds are seen. The arrival date of the first bird of any migrant species is usually fairly close to the arrival of the main bulk of that species : even ...

Some Observations on a remarkably coloured Heron

01 January 1945 Comments Main paper ON March 26th, 1944, I was watching with glasses some Herons (Ardea c. cinerea) in a small heronry near Athenry, Co. Galway, Eire. There were two birds on a newly started (late) nest. The nest was in a beech tree, and at that time the trees were bare so t...

Summary of a Report on the Distribution and Status of the Corn-Crake (Crex Crex)

01 January 1945 Comments Main paper IN the summers from 1933 to 1937 Corn-Crakes were present near Stratford-on-Avon, where they had not been heard since about 1930. In 1935 and 1936 they also re-established themselves in certain areas in Worcestershire. This suggested the possibility that ...

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Obituary: E. W. Hendy

Sheld-Duck On The Tay Estuary

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: Jim Vincent (1883-1944)

Departure of Swifts

Some Observations on a remarkably coloured Heron

Summary of a Report on the Distribution and Status of the Corn-Crake (Crex Crex)

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