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Letters

01 May 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n t h e article on Incubation, b y Mr, Erie B. Dunlop (antea, p. 109), t h e writer s a y s : " Another bird which rears few young compared to t h e number of eggs it lays is t h e Great-erested Grebe. Four or five eggs are very frequently ...

Notes

01 May 1963 Comments Notes FOE some years now I have been paying particular attention to the nestlings of common birds. It is of course now known to all ornithologists that the parents keep the nest clean (as a general rule) by carrying away the excrement, and often by swallowing ...

The Sequence of Plumages of the Rook, With Special Reference to the Moult of the " Face."

01 May 1963 Comments Main paper I T has always been a disputed point as to whether the Rook (Oorvus f. frugihgus) gets its bare " face " by means of abrasion of the feathers or by a moult. Most ornithologists have favoured the moult theory or have regarded it as a " natural peculiarity....

Reviews

01 July 1952 Comments Reviews The Greenshank. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson (Collins, 1951). 15s. In The Handbook's account of the Greenshank it was evident t h a t much of our knowledge of the species was due to Mr. Nethersole-Thompson, but it needed the publication of this book to ...

Notes

01 July 1952 Comments Notes Long-tailed Tits' unorthodox nesting arrangements.--On April 21st, 1951, the writers found the nest of a Long-tailed Tit (Mgithalos caudatus) in the main fork of an apple tree near Brandon, Suffolk. Such a site' is unusual in East Anglia, and the nest ha...

Reports on the movements of some commoner summer migrants at British Bird observatories in 1951

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper As already mentioned, these reports are confined to the spring migration. The expression " Bird/Days," as used last year, represents the sum of the birds recorded each day, and as individuals may stay for more than one day it does not necessarily represe...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLI. The Black Woodpecker, The White-backed Woodpecker

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper THE WHITE-BACKED WOODPECKER. Photographed by P. O. SWANBERG. (Plates 53-59). W E are indebted to P. O. Swanberg for photographs of the Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) taken in Sweden, and to Jb. v. d. Peppel and J. P. Strijbos for Dutch material. The...

Report from bird observatories, 1951

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper more we are indebted to those in charge of the Bird Observatories for a series of reports on their work. This year we are glad to include reports from Monks' House on the Northumberland coast and from Jersey, where new Observatories have been opened. We ...

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater in Scilly: A new British bird

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper MANY of our readers are probably aware that a new species, the Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops superciliosus) was added to the British list last year. Publication of the record has been delayed as it was felt that the occasion demanded a coloured plate. W...

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Letters

Notes

The Sequence of Plumages of the Rook, With Special Reference to the Moult of the " Face."

Reviews

Notes

Reports on the movements of some commoner summer migrants at British Bird observatories in 1951

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLI. The Black Woodpecker, The White-backed Woodpecker

Report from bird observatories, 1951

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater in Scilly: A new British bird

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