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01 April 1952 Comments Reviews Proceedings of the Xth International Ornithological Congress, Uppsala, June, 1950. "(Almquist & Wicksell, Uppsala, Sweden, 1952. Price Sw. Kr. 35, or £2 8s. 3d. Obtainable direct from Prof. S. Horstadius, Zoologiska Institutionen, Uppsala). T H I S ...

Notes

01 April 1952 Comments Notes Song-Thrush nesting in a Monkey-Puzzle Tree.--In connexion with the note (antea, p . 287) on a Mistle-Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) nesting in a Monkey Puzzle tree, it may be of interest to record that on May 6th, 1946, at Oxted, Surrey, I found a nest of a...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XXXVIII. The Redwing, Fieldfare

01 April 1952 Comments Main paper (Plates 29-36). APART from the Brambling {Fringilla montifringilla), of which we have already published a series of plates (vol. xliv, Plates 1-7), the Redwing (Turdus musicus) and Fieldfare (T. pilaris) are the only two passerines which winter in numbers...

Little Auks in Britain, 1948 to 1951

01 April 1952 Comments Main paper IN the two winters 1948-9 and 1949-50 an unusual number of Little Auks (A lie alle) visited the British Isles. Most noteworthy was a "wreck" (i.e., a widespread destruction of the species on land) in mid-February, 1950, probably the most extensive in the ...

Notes and display of the Magpie

01 April 1952 Comments Main paper (with text illustrations by R. GILLMOR). IN July, 1949,1 acquired a juvenile female Magpie (Pica pica) which was fixated on human beings and when adult regarded me as her mate. This bird's behaviour inspired closer observation of wild Magpies for comparat...

Letter

01 November 1946 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have observed no less than twenty-three instances between February 27th and March 7th, 1946, where one Rook (Corvus f. frugUegus) was either in or standing upon t h e nest with two attendant Rooks perched close together a t some twelve t o ...

Reviews

01 November 1946 Comments Reviews Birds in Colour. By Walter Higham. (Collins, 1945). Price 25s. T H I S book comes as something of a shock to those who are acquainted with the excellence of the colour rendering in Mr. Higham's cinematograph films. The gap between colour transparencies an...

Notes

01 November 1946 Comments Notes RAVEN NESTING IN A ROOKERY, ON March loth, 1946, I flushed a Raven (Corvus c. cor ax) from a nest at the top of a tall pine in a conifer wood about five miles from Cardiff. In view of previous records of this species nesting in rookeries (antea, Vol. xxx...

Variations in clutch size and some nesting success data

01 November 1946 Comments Main paper SOME time ago Mr. David Lack remarked to me that during the earlier months of the season birds tended to lay smaller clutches than in the later months. My observations in Devonshire show the following results.Hence C/3 is not uncommon in the early part of...

Notes on nest-sites of the Oyster-catcher and the Long-Eared Owl as a hole breeder

01 November 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 44-46). THE OYSTER-CATCHER. THE Oyster-catcher (Hcematopus ostralegus) is a bird that sometimes uses strange nesting-places. On the isle of Texel a pair bred from 1917-1934 on the thatched roof of a barn as stated by Drijver (Texel, ket vogdeiland...

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Reviews

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XXXVIII. The Redwing, Fieldfare

Little Auks in Britain, 1948 to 1951

Notes and display of the Magpie

Letter

Reviews

Notes

Variations in clutch size and some nesting success data

Notes on nest-sites of the Oyster-catcher and the Long-Eared Owl as a hole breeder

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