Letters

01 February 1948
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t seems a n opportune moment for making a plea t h a t t h e scope of the British Trust Ringing Scheme should be widened by making rings available for use outside t h e British Islands. While we fully appreciate the organizational a n d sup...
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Reviews

01 February 1948
Comments Reviews Aristocrats'' of the Air. By Captain C. W. R. Knight. (Williams and Norgate, London, 1946). 30s. od. The first edition of this eminently readable book was first published in 1935, but has been out of print for nearly twenty years. This, the second edition...
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Notes

01 February 1948
Comments Notes DURING the years 1946 and 1947 I have noticed several species singing outside what appears to be their normal song-period as defined in The Handbook charts. Some of these variations are considerable, others less so. The particulars are as follows :-- NUT...
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Letter

01 October 1939
Comments Letters SIRS,--In connexion with t h e discussion of this subject (antea, pp. 248-50) it is perhaps worth mentioning t h a t in September, 1911, I watched quantities of Great Shearwaters in t h e Bay of Biscay on a voyage to Bordeaux on the 6th, and on the return...
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Reviews

01 October 1939
Comments Reviews South-Eastern Bird Report, 1938. Edited by Ralph Whitlock. (R, Whitlock, Pitton, Salisbury.) 3s, 6d. THIS Report is now published under the auspices of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies and a committee of management under the chairmanship of...
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Notes

01 October 1939
Comments Notes FOR some years a pair of Grey Wagtails (Motacilla c. cinerea) have nested in and round a house in Ireland choosing as sites the window ledges of upstairs windows or the thick stems of a Virginian creeper, the nest being either built along a branch or in ...
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