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01 January 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--An annual report for the County of Suffolk is to be published, beginning with 1950, and I would be grateful if any of your readers who may have records of observations made in Suffolk in this or subsequent years would be good enough to send them to...

Books Received

01 January 1951 Comments Editorials Flamingo City. By G. K. Yeates. (Country Life, 25/-). Birds and Men. By E M. Nicholson. (Collins, 21/-). The Sarawak Museum Journal (Vol. V, No. 2, September, 1950). ment Printing Office, Kuching, Sarawak ; $6.00 Straits). (Govern-...

Reviews

01 January 1951 Comments Reviews Fifteenth Annual Report (1948) and Sixteenth Annual Report (1949) of the British Trust for Ornithology. Price 1/6. Obtainable from B.T.O., 91, Banbury Road, Oxford. These two reports give evidence of much useful work carried on under the auspices of the B...

Notes

01 January 1951 Comments Notes ON March 23rd, 1947, I observed a presumed male Rook (Corvus fmgilegus) attempting coition on the ground with a presumed female of the same species. The rookery was about 50 yards away.ON,April 4th, 1949, at Little Plumstead, Norfolk, two Rooks were pres...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XXIX. The Brambling

01 January 1951 Comments Main paper (Plates 1-7). IN contrast to many of the species which have figured in this series, the Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) is a familiar and regular winter visitor to this country, its numbers varying from year to year according to local conditions. The...

Birds Seen In The North Atlantic

01 January 1951 Comments Main paper Liverpool Plymouth La Palice Santander La Coruna Bermuda Nasau .. Havana . . Kingston Cartagena .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. October 6 8 7 10 17 19 20-21 23 25 March 24 23 22 21 20 12-13 10 8-9 ...

The breeding cycle of a pair of Wood-Warblers

01 January 1951 Comments Main paper IN May, 1947, a pair of Wood-Warblers (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) arrived in an area of Englefield Green, Surrey, where a pair had nested in at least the previous vear. The iq46 pair is referred to in May's " Studies on a Community of Willow-Warblers (Phyll...

The Building of A Rookery

01 January 1951 Comments Main paper OGILVIE OBSERVATIONS on Rook (Corvus frugilegus) behaviour during the incubation period and in winter have been recorded in previous issues of British Birds (antm, vol. xl, pp. 135-139, and xlii, pp. 65-68). The notes which follow are based on a study of...

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...

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Letters

Books Received

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XXIX. The Brambling

Birds Seen In The North Atlantic

The breeding cycle of a pair of Wood-Warblers

The Building of A Rookery

Notes

Notes on the food of the Kestrel

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