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01 September 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--In t h e course of a study of t h e breeding population of Oystercatchers (Hmmatopus ostralegms occidenialis) on the islands of Skomer and Skokholm this year we have ringed a number of chicks with coloured rings. Though the main purpose of this has...

Notes

01 September 1946 Comments Notes THE habit of sun-bathing by passerine birds.is discussed in a note by T. S. Williams (antea, p. 152). As indicated in the Editorial comment thereto this is probably commoner than at first sight appears to be the case. To the list of species given I can a...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. VI. The Griffon Vulture

01 September 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 31-35). THE Griffon Vulture (Gyps f.fulvus), of which species a single immature example was captured near Cork in 1843 and others have been reliably reported as seen on two occasions in England, has in recent years become almost, if not quite, ext...

Some further Notes from the North Atlantic

01 September 1946 Comments Main paper (with chart). SINCE the publication in 1928 of the writer's " Bird Notes from the North Atlantic " (Brit. Birds, Vol. xxii, pp. 122-133) and of "An Ornithological Transect of the North Atlantic" (Brit. Birds, Vol. xxiv, pp. 266-274), much has been done to...

Do juvenile birds survive less than adults

01 September 1946 Comments Main paper FARNER (1945} has estimated the age and survival of the American Robin (Turdus migratorius) from ringing (banding) returns, by the method used by the present writer for various British species (Lack, 1943). Farner's conclusions agree closely with mine exc...

Reviews

01 May 1938 Comments Reviews De Nederlandsche Vogels. Bewerkt door Dr. C. Eykman, P . A, Hens, Jhr Dr. Ir F . C. van H e u m , Dr. C. G. B. t e n Kate, J. G. van Marie, G. van der Meer, M. J. Tekke en Tsj. Gs. de Vries. Eerste Deel. (Wageningen : Boek en Handelsdrukkerij). This is th...

Notes

01 May 1938 Comments Notes ON March 3rd, 1938, at Cambridge sewage farm we observed a Pipit which we were able to identify as a Water-Pipit (Anthus s. spinoletta). It was first seen feeding amongst other birds (Meadow-Pipits, Pied Wagtails and waders) on one of the tanks and its d...

Notes from reservoirs and Sewage farms. Staffordshire Reservoirs, 1937

01 May 1938 Comments Main paper THE following notes refer to Bellfields Reservoir except when Galley Pool is specially mentioned. Once again Mr. H. G. Alexander has kindly sent me his notes and others made by Miss C. K. James and Messrs. G. M. King, H. LI. Wilson and C. Wilson.H O O D ...

Birds of Inner London

01 May 1938 Comments Main paper 1937 there was one addition to the list published in this magazine in 1929 (Vol. XXII, pp. 222-244) a n ( i subsequently extended.* The list, excluding doubtful occurrences, now numbers 141 species or sub-species.A Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps g. griseigen...

Further notes on the habits of Sheld-Duck

01 May 1938 Comments Main paper IN British Birds for January, 1 9 3 5 (Vol. X X V I I I . , pp. 218-224), the writer gave an account of the courtship and other habits of Sheld-Duck (Tadorna tadorna). Since then other matters of interest in the life-history of this species have come unde...

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Letter

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. VI. The Griffon Vulture

Some further Notes from the North Atlantic

Do juvenile birds survive less than adults

Reviews

Notes

Notes from reservoirs and Sewage farms. Staffordshire Reservoirs, 1937

Birds of Inner London

Further notes on the habits of Sheld-Duck

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