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01 February 1951 Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory Reports, 1940--'46, 1947, 1948, 1949. (t940-'46 out of print; others obtainable from Col. H. Allen, D.S.O., M.B.E., The Red House, Heywood Lane, Tenby, price 2/6). These four reports cover a long and chequered period of Skokholm...

Notes

01 February 1951 Comments Notes ...

The effect of a snow-storm on breeding birds

01 February 1951 Comments Main paper THE purpose of this paper is to summarize the effect of the severe snow-storm of April 26th, 1950, on a number of breeding birds, whose nests were under daily observation at the Imperial College Field Station, Silwood Park, Sunninghill, Berkshire, in conn...

Notes on the breeding habits of the Swift

01 February 1951 Comments Main paper DURING the years 1944-1949 some 250 visits were made to the tower of S S . Philip and James Church, Ilfracombe, Devon, in order to study the breeding habits of the Swift (Apus apus). These visits were made at hours ranging from 6.00 to 24.00, B.S.T. The n...

Obituary: Bernard William Tucker (1901-1950)

01 February 1951 Comments Obituaries IT is not much over ten years since Harry Witherby called Bernard Tucker to assist him with the editing' of this Magazine after the death of F . C. R. Jourdain, and it is little more than seven years since, on Harry Witherby's own death, the editorial res...

Letter

01 October 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,--In connexion with t h e discussion of this subject (antea, pp. 248-50) it is perhaps worth mentioning t h a t in September, 1911, I watched quantities of Great Shearwaters in t h e Bay of Biscay on a voyage to Bordeaux on the 6th, and on the return...

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01 October 1939 Comments Reviews South-Eastern Bird Report, 1938. Edited by Ralph Whitlock. (R, Whitlock, Pitton, Salisbury.) 3s, 6d. THIS Report is now published under the auspices of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies and a committee of management under the chairmanship of...

Notes

01 October 1939 Comments Notes FOR some years a pair of Grey Wagtails (Motacilla c. cinerea) have nested in and round a house in Ireland choosing as sites the window ledges of upstairs windows or the thick stems of a Virginian creeper, the nest being either built along a branch or in ...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 October 1939 Comments Main paper Hon. Sec. Bird-Ringing Committee, British Trust for Ornithology. OWING to the increasing number of recoveries, t h e Committee has decided to omit from the published lists, all those within ten miles of the place of ringing, in t h e case of those specie...

Mrs. C. L. E. Perrott's Selection of British Birds

01 October 1939 Comments Main paper (Plate 3.) IN Messrs. Mullens and Kirke Swann's Bibliography of British Ornithology, 1917, mention is made (pp. 469-70) of a book-- or part of a book--by Mrs. C. L. E. Perrott which they had never seen. As it has recently been my good fortune to handle a ...

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Reviews

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The effect of a snow-storm on breeding birds

Notes on the breeding habits of the Swift

Obituary: Bernard William Tucker (1901-1950)

Letter

Reviews

Notes

Recovery of Marked Birds

Mrs. C. L. E. Perrott's Selection of British Birds

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