Editorial

01 January 1955
Comments Editorials arisen in maintaining the standards and developing the scope and service of this journal during the 195o's, following the early death of H. F. Witherby's chosen successor, B. W. Tucker. We explained how the capacity of the team which had then been improvi...
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Letters

01 January 1955
Comments Letters " A N T I N G " BY B I R D S S I R S , -- T h e announcement by the Editors of British Birds (antea, vol. xlvii, p p . 312-313), based on the work of H . Poulsen, that " a n t i n g " by birds is "quite a u t o m a t i c " and is merely performed to rub o...
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Reviews

01 January 1955
Comments Reviews INSULARITY in ornithology has received many hard knocks recently, but even for these times there is something breath-taking in the degree of cosmopolitanism assumed in this ambitious work by Mr. Delacour and his illustrator, Mr. Scott. Even a wide acquain...
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Special review

01 January 1955
Comments Reviews By E. M. NICHOLSON D R . LACK begins this comprehensive review of a rapidly expanding subject with a chapter on the comparative stability of populations, starting from the 1928 British Birds Census of heronries and its subsequent annual follow-up. T h e p...
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Notes

01 January 1955
Comments Notes at a water-hole near Nanyuki, Kenya, B.E.A., around 1900 hours (local time) on 29th January, 1953, I observed an interesting display between two W o o d Sandpipers (Tringa glareola). The actual display was not so remarkable as the fact that both participa...
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