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01 February 1962
Comments Editorials Cold weather migrations.--The British Trust for Ornithology and "British Birds are analysing the unusually impressive cold -weather migrations of the week following 28th December 1961. All records of movements, arrivals and departures at this period are o...
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Letters

01 February 1962
Comments Letters What is a British bird ? Sirs,--The recent note and subsequent correspondence on the occurrence of a White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albkollis) in Hampshire {Brit. Birds, 54: 366-367 and 439-440) prompts once more the question: what is a British bird?...
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Reviews

01 February 1962
Comments Reviews D o w n the L o n g Wind (A Study of Bird Migration). By Garth Christian. N e w n e s , London, 1961. 240 pages; 31 plates; 23 maps. 21s. Few branches of ornithology have made more rapid strides than the study of migration and every year now sees the publ...
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Notes

01 February 1962
Comments Notes British-ringed Manx Shearwater recovered in Australia,--The Bird Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology has received a letter dated 22nd November 1961, which reports that the feathers and bones of a sea-bird "black or dark on top with whit...
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Birds with abnormal bills

01 February 1962
Comments Open Access C L O S E C O R R E L A T I O N of the shape and size of a bird's bill with its feeding preferences has been demonstrated even within a species (see Lack 1947, Snow 1954). But individuals with bills differing considerably from the normal also occur, ev...
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News and Comment

01 April 1955
Comments News and comment A new edition of the Field Guide.--Many bird-watchers find it difficult to remember the time when A. Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, by Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort and P. A. D . Hollom, was not as essential a part of their equipment...
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Reviews

01 April 1955
Comments Reviews T h e P o p u l a r H a n d b o o k of British Birds. By P . A. D . H o l l o m . 3rd (revised) edition. Witherby, L o n d o n , 1962. xxiii-f-511 p a g e s ; 151 plates. 48s. When The Popular Handbook first appeared in 1952, it made available to a far wi...
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Notes

01 April 1955
Comments Notes Ringed Plover breeding on cliff top,--In mid-June 1962 D . Carr, R, M. Lockley and I found a pair of Ringed Plovers {Charadrim hiaiicula) breeding on top of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire, within a hundred yards of the cliff edge. The site was a fairly l...
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