Letters

01 December 1950
Comments Letters SIRS,---A note recently published in British Birds (antea, p. 89) commenting on the presence of Bewick's Swans a t Malltraeth, suggests t h a t the status of this species in Anglesey is t h a t of a n occasional visitor. These birds are, however, more reg...
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Review

01 December 1950
Comments Reviews Robin Redbreast. By David Lack. (Oxford University Press ; L o n d o n : Geoffrey Cumberlege. 15/-). In this volume, which appears to be a by-product of his earlier work and is a sort of ornithological jeu d'esprit, Dr. Lack deals with the " unnatural h i...
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Notes

01 December 1950
Comments Notes " A N T I N G " OF CARRION CROW ON June 15th, 1949, at Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, 1 observed a Carrion Crow (Corvus corone), at a distance of twenty yards, behaving in a peculiar manner. It was squatting on the grass with its feathers widespread. At hal...
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The Iceland Gull in winter

01 December 1950
Comments Main paper 'FOR some obscure reason the Glaucous Gull (Lams hyperboreus) became comparatively numerous in Shetland waters during the winters of the late war. Since then its numbers have dropped back to the normal few. Whatever was the reason for this fluctuation, t...
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Editorial

01 December 1950
Comments Editorials WE are asked by the publishers to announce that the annual subscription to British Birds is to be raised by one shilling. We regret having to remind readers that the cost of living is rising, but we regret still more having to make this increase, small t...
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Letters

01 May 1946
Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. N. D. Pullen, Mr. H. G. Hurrell and Miss N. C. Hicks (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300 and 360) have drawn attention t o an interesting problem of behaviour. I have observed t h e " digging " in the bottom of the nest, as described by the abov...
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Notes

01 May 1946
Comments Notes DURING a continuation of observations on migration in the Trent Valley near Nottingham in 1945, the following species were noted, most of the records being the first for the county and therefore worthy of-record. ICTERINE WARBLER (Hippolais icterina),--A...
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