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Photographic studies of some less Familiar birds: LXVI. Hoopoe

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper T H E Hoopoe (Upupa epops) has already appeared in our series (vol. xlii, plates 15-17), but Mr. Doncaster's magnificent photographs are so different, and show so well the remarkable flight pattern of this bird, that we feel more than justified in publish...

Field-notes on some Asian Leaf-Warblers-II

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper T H E first part of this paper (antea, pp. 293-299) dealt with those leaf-warblers or willow warblers (Phylloscopus) which are distinguished by their pale wing-bars; in this second part I turn to those species that have no wing-bar and add notes on some v...

Special review

01 August 1955 Comments Reviews (Part II) T H E Lariformes a r e considered a separate order by the Russians and are dealt with by G. P . Dementiev. On the one hand, he writes, they approach the waders and on the other the auks. But " t h e common morphological characteristics are not n...

Notes on the Black Duck

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper T H E chances of the Black Duck (Anas rubripes) shot in Ireland on 5th February 1954 having - escaped from captivity may be regarded as negligible. Very few are kept in waterfowl collections, and although they have been bred at Slimbridge, Gloucestersh...

Black Duck in Co. Kilkenny: A Bird New To Ireland And Britain

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper O N 12th February 1954 a duck, which had been forwarded by Mr. Frank Hudson, Carriganore, Waterford, was received at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. Mr. P . E. Dunn and I identified it as a Black Duck [Anas rubripes), a native of eastern North Ame...

The mixing of the races of the Yellow Wagtail in Kenya

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper THERE is considerable controversy over the occurrence of certain east European and Asiatic races of the Yellow W a g t a i l (Motacilla flava) in Great Britain. Some ornithologists accept these records as examples of vagrancy while others claim some of th...

Notes

01 June 1943 Comments Notes As The Handbook of British Birds states that the Wood-Lark (Lullula a. arborea) does not apparently now nest in Essex, it is perhaps worth recording that on April n t h , 1943 I found a nest of this species on a piece of rough ground a few miles south of...

An investigation into the roles of males in relation to incubation

01 June 1943 Comments Main paper IN response to the Editor's request, I will endeavour in this paper to throw some fresh light on the subject of Incubation, of which we appear to have far from a full understanding. I claim no more than an attempt to probe into a subject of great complexi...

Some Observations on the Marsh-Harrier

01 June 1943 Comments Main paper (Plates 1-4.) THE status of the Marsh-Harrier {Circus a. esruginosus) as a breeding bird in Great Britain has for many years been very precarious. For at least 45 years' prior to 1915 there are no records of successful breeding though three attempts were ...

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