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01 May 1971 Comments Letters Feather wear in Guillemots In view of R. J. Kennedy's note on feather wear in Guillemots Uria aalge (Brit. Birds, 63: 34-36) and the follow-up in this issue (pages 229-230), I should like to point out that a good many of the auks involved in the disaster ...

Notes

01 May 1971 Comments Notes Display-flight of Sparrowhawks I was interested in the note by R. A. Hume and P. L. Garvey on the possible display-flight of four Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus on 25th January 1970 (Brit Birds, 63: 132). The unusual features were the number involved and th...

Obituary - James Maxwell McConnell Fisher, MA (1912-1970)

01 May 1971 Comments Main paper James Fisher lost his life in a motor accident at Hendon on 25 th September 1970. Born on 3rd September 1912, he had just passed his 5 8th birthday and, if a man can reasonably look forward to the traditional three score and ten, he was denied at least a ...

Studies of less familiar birds 165: Serin

01 May 1971 Comments Main paper Plates 29-34 Compared with its well-known relative, the Canary Serinus canaria, of the Canary Islands, Azores and Madeira, the Serin S. serinus is smaller and not so brightly coloured. In many ways it bears more resemblance to the Siskin Carduelis spinus ...

Observations on a resident population of Stonechats in Jersey

01 May 1971 Comments Main paper Between 1950 and 1970 I studied a population of Stonechats Saxicola torquata in the area of St Ouen's Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands. In the course of this, nearly 1,000 individuals of all ages were ringed and, between 1951 and 1965, 660 of them were also c...

Recent reports

01 May 1971 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The last summary (Brit, Birds, 64: 135-136) covered the rarer species and most of the unseasonal summer visitors in December 1970 and January 1971. This one deals with the remaining reports in...

News and Comment

01 May 1971 Comments News and comment Birds of Estuaries Enquiry This joint project of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was outlined in 'News and comment' last year (Brit. Birds, 63: 183). The first report of the pilot survey, covering the p...

Letters

01 April 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. K. E. L. Simmons's letter (antea, p. 40) on this subject draws attention to reactions in trapped birds intermediate between remaining immobile on the open hand and the extreme, trance-like "death feigning". A further case may be of interest. On...

Reviews

01 April 1951 Comments Reviews Notes on the Birds of Warwickshire by C. A. Norris. (Cornish Brothers Ltd., Birmingham, 1947). 8s. 6d. THE only previous account of the birds of this county was that published by R. F. Tomes in the Victoria History of Warwickshire in 1904. The present lit...

Notes

01 April 1951 Comments Notes T H E following notes, made on a colony of Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) in a Cambridge street during March, 1949, have been prompted by Mr. C. M. Ogilvie's article on this subject (antea, pp. 1-5). This rookery, comprising only five pairs, was a new one, pr...

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Obituary - James Maxwell McConnell Fisher, MA (1912-1970)

Studies of less familiar birds 165: Serin

Observations on a resident population of Stonechats in Jersey

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