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01 February 1958 Comments Reviews p a g e s ; coloured frontispiece by Roland Green; 12 photographic plates. (Witherby, London, 1957). 21s. INTENDED to provide detailed practical information for keepers, and would-be keepers, of waterfowl, this small book fulfils its aims admirably. A wor...

Notes

01 February 1958 Comments Notes Leach's Petrels in Shetland.--On 6th August 1957, Leach's Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) were located over the boulderstrewn slopes of The Noup, Foula, Shetland. One was caught and at the same time two others could be heard calling- in flight. One was a...

Reports from Britain of Black-headed Gulls Ringed in the Oberlausitz, East Germany

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper " L A R G E NUMBERS of ringed Black-headed Gulls (Larus ridibundus) are reported in Britain each winter, the places of origin being chiefly the countries of northern Europe, with a not inconsiderable number from Czecho-Slovakia, Saxony and B a v a r i a "...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXV. Pygmy Owl

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper T H E PYGMY O W L (Glaucidiutn passerimitn) is a Palaearctic species which h a s not yet been recorded in Britain, though in western Europe t h e typical form is found in central and northern Scandinavia, Finland, French Jura, the Alps (including - Switze...

British recoveries of birds Ringed Abroad

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper [This list continues from that published in 1956 (antes, vol. xlix, pp. 438-452). Among records of special interest included in it are a number relating to wildfowl, which help to show the lelation of breeding areas to winter quarters. Camargue-ringed Mal...

The birds of Tiree and Coll

01 February 1958 Comments Main paper of Zoology, Glasgow University*) (Plates 18-20) T H E islands of Tiree and Coll, Inner Hebrides, lie totally within the vice-county Mid Ebudes (103). Situated between Mull and the Barra Isles, they stretch some 45 miles S . W . into the ocean from Ardnamu...

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...

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...

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 ...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 October 1939 Comments Main paper Hon. Sec. Bird-Ringing Committee, British Trust for Ornithology. OWING to the increasing number of recoveries, t h e Committee has decided to omit from the published lists, all those within ten miles of the place of ringing, in t h e case of those specie...

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Reports from Britain of Black-headed Gulls Ringed in the Oberlausitz, East Germany

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXV. Pygmy Owl

British recoveries of birds Ringed Abroad

The birds of Tiree and Coll

Letter

Reviews

Notes

Recovery of Marked Birds

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