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01 June 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--I am grateful to Mr. Ivan M. Goodbody for his comments (antea, p. 32) on my paper on the nocturnal migration of thrushes (antea, vol. xlvi, pp. 37°-374)' It is indeed possible that the coasting movement at Dun Laoghaire was unnatural. With the com...

Reviews

01 June 1954 Comments Reviews The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland. Report for 1952. Compiled by R. A. O. Hickling and R. E. Pochin and obtainable from the former at 223, Swithland Lane, Rothley Plain, Leics. 24 pp. with map. 2s. 6d. CLASSIFIED notes, given in the Wetmore order, co...

Notes

01 June 1954 Comments Notes female Scaup (Ay thy a tnarila) occurred at Cheddar reservoir, Somerset, on November 26th, 1952. The party had suddenly surfaced not more than twenty yards from the observer, and apparently becoming alarmed they quickly swam away, beginning as they did so...

Further notes on the birds of Bardsey Island

01 June 1954 Comments Main paper SINCE the appearance of my earlier paper (antea, vol. xlvi, pp. 131137) additional notes have been received from several q u a r t e r s . Sir Geoffrey H a w o r t h w a s on the island on June 22nd and 23rd, 1932; Charles Oldham and Bertram Lloyd were t...

Census of Swallows in the Sedbergh area

01 June 1954 Comments Main paper ...

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain 1951-53

01 June 1954 Comments Main paper T H I S paper records the increase and spread of the Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) since the last report on its status, in 1950 (antea, vol. xlv, pp. 61-64). Apart from the first occurrence at Tring, in 1938, the Little Ringed Plover has now br...

The spring migration of the Willow Warbler in 1952

01 June 1954 Comments Main paper T H E study of bird-migration in the British area has received a great impetus since the war through the establishment of a number of bird observatories at widely separated points, the manning of these stations by competent amateur watchers during migrati...

Reviews

01 October 1947 Comments Reviews More Birds of the Day. By Eric Hosking and Cyril Newberry. (Collins, London, 1946). 125 6d. net. The great popularity of t h e authors' Birds of the Day has led t h e m to follow this up with a sequel providing a no less admirable picture gallery of Briti...

Notes

01 October 1947 Comments Notes ON June 22nd, 1947, in a wood just outside Calais, I had a good view of a male Golden Oriole (Oriolus 0. oriolus), sitting in sunlight on a bare twig of a lombardy poplar, about 30 feet from the ground. It called continuously for about eight minutes. The...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. X. The Purple Heron

01 October 1947 Comments Main paper (Plates 26-31), THE striking series of photographs of the Purple Heron (Ardea p, purpurea) now published, were taken in the district of the Camargue (Rhone Delta) in May and June of the present year, 1947. This species is characteristically a reed-bed ne...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

Further notes on the birds of Bardsey Island

Census of Swallows in the Sedbergh area

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain 1951-53

The spring migration of the Willow Warbler in 1952

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. X. The Purple Heron

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