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01 February 1957 Comments Letters ICELAND R E D W I N G S WINTERING SIRS,--October 1956 saw an unparalleled " i n v a s i o n " of Iceland Redwings (Turdus musicus coburni) through Fair Isle, big movements occurring on the i2th, i8th-2oth and 2zLth-25th with westerly weather. Of 333 Redwi...

Reviews

01 February 1957 Comments Reviews By K. E. L. SIMMONS. Reprinted (1956) from Ã„vicultural Magazine, vol. 61, pp. 3-13, 93-102, 131-146, 181-201, 235-253, 294-316. Obtainable from A. A. Prestwich, 61 Chase Road, London, N.14. Price 5s. M R . SIMMONS'S paper is really a miniature monogr...

Notes

01 February 1957 Comments Notes Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ãœ1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXVIII. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull

01 February 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates 9-1i) W E are fortunate to be able to publish this month photographs from Hungary of the Mediterranean Black-headed Gull (Larus melanocephalus) taken by D r . Peter Beretzk of the University of Szeged. D r . Beretzk has also been kind enough to gi...

Report on bird-ringing for 1955

01 February 1957 Comments Main paper Secretary, Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology. THIS is the nineteenthf report issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee. It combines a report on the progress of ringing during 1955 with a selected list of recoveries reported ...

Fair Isle bird observatory

01 February 1950 Comments Main paper Compiled by KENNETH WILLIAMSON (Director). The following notes have been selected from the Fair Isle Bird Observatory " Notes on Species " record-book as much for their importance in amplifying the information contained in The Handbook of British Birds a...

Marsh-Tit territories over six years

01 February 1950 Comments Main paper ...

Reviews

01 February 1950 Comments Reviews Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. Committee for Ornithology Reports for 1947 and 1948. Edited by Ralph Chislett. (Reprinted from The Naturalist, 1948, pp. 51-74, and 1949, 51-75.) T H E S E reports as usual contain much valuable material. Up to four Gannets w...

Notes

01 February 1950 Comments Notes DURING a visit to Thanet in the autumn of 1947, I was enabled, through the kindness of Mrs. Powell-Cotton, to examine the small collection of locally-taken bird-skins in the above museum. These were made readily available to me by the present Curator, Mr...

Scenes at an artificial drinking pool

01 February 1950 Comments Main paper (53) SCENES AT AN ARTIFICIAL DRINKING POOL. Photographed by ERIC HOSKING. (Plates 10--16). The scenes illustrated in plates 10-16 were taken at an artificial drinking pool in Suffolk during the summer of 1949, mostly in June. Mr. Hosking writes that " pos...

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Letters

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Notes

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXVIII. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull

Report on bird-ringing for 1955

Fair Isle bird observatory

Marsh-Tit territories over six years

Reviews

Notes

Scenes at an artificial drinking pool

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