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01 August 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to he reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

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01 August 1960 Comments Reviews The Bird in the Hand. By R. K. Cornwallis and A. E. Smith. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, i960. 69 pages. 4s. (Obtainable from the B.T.O., 2 King Edward Street, Oxford, at 4s. 6d. including postage.) At last the bird-ringer has available the type ...

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01 August 1960 Comments Notes Attempted coition by Little Stints on autumn passage.--At Radipole Lake, Weymouth, Dorset, on 4th October 1957, I became very interested in the behaviour of two Little Stints (Calidris minutd). One was making short runs or low level flights across a shall...

The past status of the Brent Goose

01 August 1960 Comments Main paper the use of extracts from the British literature to obtain historical estimates of the numbers of the Darkbreasted and Pale-breasted Brent Geese (Branta bernicla bernicla and hrotd). Salomonsen (1958) stated that "the number of Dark-breasted Brents winteri...

Autumn "drift-migration" on the English east coast

01 August 1960 Comments Main paper etc.), the view is now widely accepted that the appearances of Continental night-migrants on the British east coast in autumn are much too infrequent and irregular to be explained in terms of a regular passage there, and instead they are attributed to "dr...

Some photographs of Woodpigeon behaviour and feeding

01 August 1960 Comments Main paper behaviour patterns of the Woodpigeon {Columba palumbus). Then Cramp (1958) described the main features of territorial and nesting behaviour throughout the breeding season, as a result of a study of this species in the London parks and squares. Reference t...

Notes

01 April 1946 Comments Notes IN the autumn of 1945 I have noticed Jackdaws (Corvus monedula spermologus) frequenting two holes in different beeches close together, at Westerham, Kent, but have been unable to prove definitely that they were breeding. A Jackdaw was seen to leave one h...

Notes on the food of the Kestrel

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper THE following information has been gathered as the result of analyses of 206 pellets of the Kestrel (Fako t. timmnculus) collected at regular intervals between July 1st, 1944, and March 24th, 1945, from a roost in an old shed and are believed, from feathe...

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. III. The Cirl Bunting

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 15-16). THIS local species (Emberiza cirlus) is one of the comparatively small number of birds regularly breeding in the British Isles which may still fairly be classed in the present category. Some earlier observers concluded that only the femal...

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Recent Reports and News

Reviews

Notes

The past status of the Brent Goose

Autumn "drift-migration" on the English east coast

Some photographs of Woodpigeon behaviour and feeding

Notes

Notes on the food of the Kestrel

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. III. The Cirl Bunting

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