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01 December 1966 Comments News and comment The B.O.U. 'Check-List' and 1966 records of rare birds.--The Records Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union hopes to complete the text of the new edition of its standard 'Check-List' by the end of March 1967. This publication will review more full...

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01 December 1966 Comments Editorials Status of Water Pipits in winter.--The discovery that Water Pipits Anthus s. spinohtta are now wintering regularly, perhaps in some numbers, on watercress beds in southern England (see pages 552-554 and plate 81a) has encouraged the British Trust for Orni...

Letters

01 December 1966 Comments Letters Week-end bias, length of stay of rarities and proportion of rarities undetected Sirs,--Although the effect of 'week-end bias' (the increased watching at week-ends) is often commented on, there appear to be no figures to show exactly how marked it is. In a...

Reviews

01 December 1966 Comments Reviews The Feathers and Plumage of Birds. By A. A. Voitkevich. Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1966. xvi+335 pages; 74 textfigures and 21 tables. 45 s. One of the 'Biology Series Monographs', this book is unfortunate in its title which suggests a wide and generalise...

Notes

01 December 1966 Comments Notes Heron eating House Sparrows.--Seton Gordon's recent note and the accompanying editorial comment on Herons Ardeatinereaeating birds {Brit. Birds, 59: 37) prompt me to record similar feeding behaviour by a captive Heron which came into my possession as a ju...

Hybrid Grey Lag X Canada Goose suggesting influence of Giant Canada Goose in Britain

01 December 1966 Comments Main paper of 1962, at Millom, south Cumberland, a male Grey Lag Goose Anser anser mated with a female Canada Goose Branta canadensis. The Canada Goose, which was perfectly normal in all its plumage characters, had flown in to join a flock of Grey Lags maintained in...

Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent and the problem of identification

01 December 1966 Comments Main paper T H E SMALL American Calidris -waders are notoriously difficult to identify, particularly by anyone lacking in experience of the group (see, for example, Nisbet 1963 and Marchant 1963). Between 6th and 9th September 1965, what eventually proved to be a Se...

Eruptions of Bearded Tits during 1959-65

01 December 1966 Comments Main paper cold and snow in early 1947, the British population of Bearded Tits Panurus biarmicus steadily increased until, in the past decade, numbers in East Anglia have been higher than for a hundred years. Breeding in the fine, warm summer of 1959 was especially ...

Review

01 March 1941 Comments Reviews Birds of the Grey Wind. By Edward A, Armstrong (Oxford University Press). Illustrated. 12s. 6d. net. THE title of this book and its unusual medley of poetry, history and legend may well hide the fact that also within its pages are to be found some excelle...

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01 March 1941 Comments Notes As an example of how food-supply can affect the number of birds breeding in a locality the following may be of interest. When I first came to Benenden, Kent, about twenty years ago, so far as I know Hawfinches (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) never nes...

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Hybrid Grey Lag X Canada Goose suggesting influence of Giant Canada Goose in Britain

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Eruptions of Bearded Tits during 1959-65

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