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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...

Notes

01 June 1946 Comments Notes WITH reference to Lt.-Col. B. H. Ryves's statement (antea, p. 43) that all species of buntings are absent in the Scillies, it may be of interest to record that my husband and I saw and heard several Corn-Buntings {Emberiza calandra) in song on St. Agnes,...

Studies of some Species rarely Photographed. V. The Three-toed Woodpecker

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper Photographed 6y H. N. SOUTHERN. (Plates 21-22). T H E Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) is one of the birds of Western Europe of which there is no good evidence t h a t it has occurred in the British Isles, though Donovan's History of British ...

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper THIS is the ninth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence by H. F. Witherby published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The Committee has been reconsti...

Birds of inner London

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper D U R I N G the year under review (1945), there has been one new record for Inner London, viz., t h e White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons), a flock of this species having been seen by Mrs. Rait Kerr crossing over Lords on February 17th. Mr. Holte Macpher...

Further Notes on the Breeding of Blue Tits

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper IN a previous paper (Vol. xxxviii, p. 205), I have given the results of some of my observations on the feeding of nestlings of the Blue Tit (Pants cmmleus obscurus). In 1945, I decided to extend the scope of the investigation to include, if possible, such...

NOTES ON NESTLING BIRDS

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Obituary: E. W. Hendy

Sheld-Duck On The Tay Estuary

Notes

Studies of some Species rarely Photographed. V. The Three-toed Woodpecker

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

Birds of inner London

Further Notes on the Breeding of Blue Tits

NOTES ON NESTLING BIRDS

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