Letters

01 December 1960
Comments Letters International ornithological congresses Sirs,--In his review of the Proceedings of the XII International Ornithological Congress {Brit. Birds, 53: 447-452) your reviewer makes some most relevant observations concerning the present nature of these meetings...
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Reviews

01 December 1960
Comments Reviews The Isle of May. By W. J. Eggeling. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1960. xiv-j-280 pages; 20 photographic plates, 30s. The firm of Oliver & Boyd has for some time been earning a deservedly high reputation for the publication of natural history books...
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Notes

01 December 1960
Comments Notes Aggressive behaviour of Barrow's Goldeneye with young.-- Although Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) does not figure on the British and Irish list, the following notes may be of interest as an instance of an aggressive attitude during the breeding s...
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List of illustrations

01 December 1960
Comments Editorials Lammergeier (Gypaitus barbatus), adult at nest, Spain (from a Kodachrome by Eric Hosking) .. .. , , facing Rose-brcastcd Grosbeak (Pbeucticus ludovicianus), male summer and winter, and female; American Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica), adult and yo...
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Letter

01 February 1943
Comments Letters SIRS,--As the Statement in The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. III, p. 109) that the Osprey (Pandion h. hali/ztus) last bred at Loch Arkaig in 1902 is incorrect this should be corrected. A pair nested regularly ever since I can remember up to 1908 and the...
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Notes

01 February 1943
Comments Notes IN February, 1942, seventy-five nesting boxes were put up inone of the oak woods of the Forest of Dean, with the object of encouraging the breeding of insectivorous birds (tits, in particular) and thus alleviating, if possible, the recurrent outbreaks of...
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