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01 September 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Vosges mountains in France during the first World War earthenware pots especially designed for sparrows to nest in were to be seen on the walls of a great many farms and I have no doubt the practice still persists. These served a double purp...

Reviews

01 September 1953 Comments Reviews Rare and Extinct Birds of Britain. By Ralph Whitlock. (Phcenix House, London, 1953). 21s. I t is open to question whether a satisfactory book can be written on the subject of our rare and extinct birds. To contribute anything original to knowledge in this...

Notes

01 September 1953 Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

01 September 1953 Comments Main paper MAY (1949) asserts that as pair-formation behaviour patterns " a r e not related to the sex act, which is the criterion for 'sexual behaviour' " , pair-formation is not sexual behaviour, at any rate in the Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) which he...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. LI. Arctic Warbler

01 September 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 48-55) P. O. SWANBERG obtained these unique photographs of the littlestudied Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis) in 1952 in Swedish Lapland which is the north-western outpost in this bird's breeding-range. The typical race, often known as Evers...

Letters

01 September 1950 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n their paper on this subject in British Birds, vol. xlii, p. 325, David and Elizabeth Lack write t h a t Dr. D. A. Bannerman in his note on Chaffinch Migration in .British Birds, vol. xxxvii, p . 177, supposed t h a t the birds he saw in N...

Reviews

01 September 1950 Comments Reviews Report of the Natural History Section of the Wiltshire Archcsological &· Natural History Society, 1947 and 1948. Some of the interesting records in these two carefully compiled reports have already appeared in British Birds : a Roller reported (antea, v...

Notes

01 September 1950 Comments Notes WITH regard to the swimming of small passerines (antea, vol. xl, pp. 179, vol. xlii, p. 183, vol. xliii, p. 121), the following incidents may be of interest. At the Eye Brook Reservoir, Leicestershire, a colony of Tree-Sparrows (Passer montanus) uses the...

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

01 September 1950 Comments Main paper The recoveries of Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus), Common Gull (Larus canus), and Teal (Anas crecca) from Dutch decoys, are too numerous to be included. To the list of Ringing Stations already published*, one not previou...

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain in 1949

01 September 1950 Comments Main paper THE Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) has now firmly established itself as a summer resident in England. In 1949 at least twenty-seven pairs spent the summer at fifteen localities in eight counties ; eighteen pairs are known to have bred and at lea...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

Studies of some species rarely photographed. LI. Arctic Warbler

Letters

Reviews

Notes

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain in 1949

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