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01 July 1962 Comments Reviews Photographing Garden Birds. By C. H. S. Tupholme. Faber, London, 1962. 127 pages; 4 colour and 6 monochrome photographs. 18s. Some excellent suggestions are given on methods of attracting wild birds into the garden by establishing various trees, shrubs an...

Notes

01 July 1962 Comments Notes Water Rail killing Little Stint and Eel.--With reference to the recent notes on Water Rails (Rallus aquaticus) killing a Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) and other small Passerines {Brit. Birds, 55: 132-133 and 165), I should like to record that on 4th Sept...

Irish Golden Eagles and a link with Scotland

01 July 1962 Comments Main paper of the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in northern Britain (see, for example, Nicholson 1957). Among the likely factors are the wartime respite from persecution, which probably resulted in a "post-war bulge" of surplus immatures, and the major shift in a...

An Ornithological sketch of the Barycz Valley in Poland

01 July 1962 Comments Main paper in western Poland, has long been famous for its birds. It is one of the few places in central Europe where such rare species as White-tailed Eagle, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Kite, Grey Lag Goose, Crane, Black Stork, Purple Heron* and others are concentrated i...

Feeding behaviour of the Turnstone in Arctic Canada

01 July 1962 Comments Main paper In 1955 we spent six months on northern Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, conducting field studies to obtain information for the National Museum of Canada on the breeding cycles of birds in the far north. The principal area of investigation was Fos...

Letter

01 February 1941 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t has long been known t h a t there is a remarkable relation between t h e Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) and the common field-vole (Microtus agrestis). The common vole at apparently regular intervals increases in numbers in different loca...

Review

01 February 1941 Comments Reviews Ritchie (1940), " An analysis of t h e influence of weather upon a migratory movement of birds," Proc, Roy, Soc, Edin., Vol. 60, P- 299.analysis of t h e d a t a relating t o t h e 1921 invasion of t h e Waxwing (Bombycitta garrulus) and t h e associated...

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01 February 1941 Comments Reviews Courtship and Display among Birds. By C, R. Stonor. (Country Life, Ltd.) With 57 plates from photographs, 8s. 6d. net. No aspect of bird behaviour is more fascinating, more biologically important or offers a more promising field for study than that of dis...

Notes

01 February 1941 Comments Notes THESE notes cover the periods between May and September, 1939, and May to July, 1940, and are in continuation of those published in Vol. XXXII, pp. 366-8. BRITISH GOLDFINCH (Carduelisc. britannica).--It is pleasing to be able to record the continued incr...

Obituary: Henry Eliot Howard. An Appreciation

01 February 1941 Comments Obituaries died on December 26th, 1940, to the very great loss of ornithological science and the poignant regret of his many friends. Born in 1873 the son of Mr. H. Howard of Stone House, Kidderminster, he was educated at Eton and at Mason's College, Birmingham. He ...

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Irish Golden Eagles and a link with Scotland

An Ornithological sketch of the Barycz Valley in Poland

Feeding behaviour of the Turnstone in Arctic Canada

Letter

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Review

Notes

Obituary: Henry Eliot Howard. An Appreciation

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