Recent reports and News

01 June 1959
Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded a* authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers* names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Letters

01 June 1959
Comments Letters FEEDING METHODS O F LONG-TAILED LARGE F O O D TITS WITH S I R S , -- I was interested to read Mrs. J. Hall-Craggs's description, together with Mr. Derek Goodwin's comments, of Long-tailed Tits (Aegithalos candatus) eating largish morsels of food whilst ha...
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Notes

01 June 1959
Comments Notes residence in Shetland we took counts about once a week for two years of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) on an area of cliffs in southwest Mainland. The counts are given in full and discussed in The Fulmar (1952) by James Fisher (pp. 347 and 482-488). These F...
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Editorial

01 June 1959
Comments Editorials FIFTY YEARS AGO our issue of i s t June 1909 began with an Editorial announcing " w i t h great satifaction" the names of two "excellent ornithologists" who would thenceforth assist in the task of editing the magazine. One of these was Dr. Norman F . Tice...
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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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