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01 December 1950 Comments Letters SIRS,---A note recently published in British Birds (antea, p. 89) commenting on the presence of Bewick's Swans a t Malltraeth, suggests t h a t the status of this species in Anglesey is t h a t of a n occasional visitor. These birds are, however, more reg...

Review

01 December 1950 Comments Reviews Robin Redbreast. By David Lack. (Oxford University Press ; L o n d o n : Geoffrey Cumberlege. 15/-). In this volume, which appears to be a by-product of his earlier work and is a sort of ornithological jeu d'esprit, Dr. Lack deals with the " unnatural h i...

Notes

01 December 1950 Comments Notes " A N T I N G " OF CARRION CROW ON June 15th, 1949, at Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, 1 observed a Carrion Crow (Corvus corone), at a distance of twenty yards, behaving in a peculiar manner. It was squatting on the grass with its feathers widespread. At hal...

The Iceland Gull in winter

01 December 1950 Comments Main paper 'FOR some obscure reason the Glaucous Gull (Lams hyperboreus) became comparatively numerous in Shetland waters during the winters of the late war. Since then its numbers have dropped back to the normal few. Whatever was the reason for this fluctuation, t...

Nestling mortality amongst tits on Tentsmuir, 1949 and 1950

01 December 1950 Comments Main paper F O R experiments in the value of tits as controls for insect pests in woods I have put up some 500 nest boxes in 20 sites round Perth. Some of these sites are as much as 40 nv'les to the north of Perth, others in Tentsmuir about 20 miles to the east. In ...

The formation and persistence of Pairs in the Marsh-Tit

01 December 1950 Comments Main paper years ago Morris (1870) in the second edition of his History of British Birds remarked of the Marsh-Tit (Parus palustris) that " the male is believed to choose a partner for life," though unfortunately the species was not then distinguished from the Willo...

Editorial

01 December 1950 Comments Editorials WE are asked by the publishers to announce that the annual subscription to British Birds is to be raised by one shilling. We regret having to remind readers that the cost of living is rising, but we regret still more having to make this increase, small t...

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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Letters

Review

Notes

The Iceland Gull in winter

Nestling mortality amongst tits on Tentsmuir, 1949 and 1950

The formation and persistence of Pairs in the Marsh-Tit

Editorial

Notes

Report of the bird-ringing committee

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

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