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01 September 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Vosges mountains in France during the first World War earthenware pots especially designed for sparrows to nest in were to be seen on the walls of a great many farms and I have no doubt the practice still persists. These served a double purp...

Reviews

01 September 1953 Comments Reviews Rare and Extinct Birds of Britain. By Ralph Whitlock. (Phcenix House, London, 1953). 21s. I t is open to question whether a satisfactory book can be written on the subject of our rare and extinct birds. To contribute anything original to knowledge in this...

Notes

01 September 1953 Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

01 September 1953 Comments Main paper MAY (1949) asserts that as pair-formation behaviour patterns " a r e not related to the sex act, which is the criterion for 'sexual behaviour' " , pair-formation is not sexual behaviour, at any rate in the Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) which he...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. LI. Arctic Warbler

01 September 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 48-55) P. O. SWANBERG obtained these unique photographs of the littlestudied Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis) in 1952 in Swedish Lapland which is the north-western outpost in this bird's breeding-range. The typical race, often known as Evers...

The Index of Heron Population, 1944

01 May 1945 Comments Main paper The number of reports on sites occupied by Herons in 1944, which were received at the Edward Grey Institute, was i n . Of these 77 were in England, 6 in Wales, 8 in Scotland and 20 in Ireland. We are indebted to 55 informants, of whom a considerable numbe...

Notes from Fair Isle, 1939-45

01 May 1945 Comments Main paper IN the spring of 1944, George T. Arthur (G.T.A.), and the writer (G.W.), visited Fair Isle, Shetland, between March 28th and April 17th. In autumn, the island was again visited by the writer between August 14th and 21st. Eighty-seven different species and...

British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

01 May 1945 Comments Main paper the last twelve years, records of the recovery in the British Isles of birds ringed abroad have been incorporated in a series of articles written and compiled by the late H. F. Witherby and the present writer.* In these articles birds ringed in the Britis...

Letters

01 May 1945 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference t o the note under t h e above heading (antea,p. 177), i t may be of interest t o record t h a t nests of t h e Swallow without any ledge or other support below are b y no means unusual in South Gloucestershire. Of 37 nests which rem...

Notes

01 May 1945 Comments Notes SOME notes of mine, under the above heading, were published in British Birds, Vol xxxvi, p. 241. A further two years spent in the same locality have enabled me to supplement them as follows :--RING-OUZEL (Turdus t. torquatus).--There is some evidence t h...

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Letters

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Notes

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

Studies of some species rarely photographed. LI. Arctic Warbler

The Index of Heron Population, 1944

Notes from Fair Isle, 1939-45

British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

Letters

Notes

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