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01 June 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largelv unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from soiirccs generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of s...

Letters

01 June 1958 Comments Letters S I R S , -- U n d e r the above title (anlea, vol. L, p p . 432-434), R. Hewson has usefully drawn attention to the aerobatics-- familiar in individuals--that are sometimes performed by flocks of Ravens (Corvus corax) and has discussed questions suggeste...

Reviews

01 June 1958 Comments Reviews day Â·& Co., New York, 1949--first edition 1946--sponsored by the National Audubon Society). $3.95. A U D U B O N W A T E R B I R D G U I D E (Water, game and large land birds of eastern and central North America from southern Texas to central Greenland...

Notes

01 June 1958 Comments Notes " R e c e n t reports and n e w s " section in our March number (antea, p . 132), brief mention was made of the fact that a number of North American Ruddy Ducks (Oxyura jamaicensis) had escaped from the Wildfowl Trust collection at Slimbridge, Gloucesters...

Obituary: John Arthington Walpole-Bond (1878-1958)

01 June 1958 Comments Obituaries O N 13TH JANUARY 1958, John Walpole-Bond died at his home in Hove, Sussex, in his 80th year. Educated at Winchester and St. J o h n ' s College, Oxford, Jock Bond, a s h e was known to his many friends, was a descendant of Prime Minister Walpole and was t...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXIX. Goshawk

01 June 1958 Comments Main paper T H E GOSHAWK (Accipiter gentilis) is of special interest as one of the very few birds of prey which occur on both sides of the Atlantic. It belongs t o an extensive group of species of " g o s h a w k s " (formerly placed in a separate genus Astur, b u t...

Bergmann's rule and obligatory overseas migration

01 June 1958 Comments Main paper IN THE STUDY of natural history there are well-known ecogeographical (sometimes called " c l i m a t i c " or "ecological") rules relating certain characteristics of warm-blooded animals to the conditions of their environment. One of the best-known in its...

Notes

01 September 1947 Comments Notes ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking some...

Report of the bird-ringing committee

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper THIS is the tenth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The composition of the Committee remains the same...

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper the co-operation of 64 observers, it has been possible to provide evidence of the breeding of at least ten pairs of Black Redstarts (Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) in England in 1946. A further 13 pairs or singing males occupied territories, but wi...

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Recent reports and news

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: John Arthington Walpole-Bond (1878-1958)

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXIX. Goshawk

Bergmann's rule and obligatory overseas migration

Notes

Report of the bird-ringing committee

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

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