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01 February 1957 Comments Letters ICELAND R E D W I N G S WINTERING SIRS,--October 1956 saw an unparalleled " i n v a s i o n " of Iceland Redwings (Turdus musicus coburni) through Fair Isle, big movements occurring on the i2th, i8th-2oth and 2zLth-25th with westerly weather. Of 333 Redwi...

Reviews

01 February 1957 Comments Reviews By K. E. L. SIMMONS. Reprinted (1956) from Ã„vicultural Magazine, vol. 61, pp. 3-13, 93-102, 131-146, 181-201, 235-253, 294-316. Obtainable from A. A. Prestwich, 61 Chase Road, London, N.14. Price 5s. M R . SIMMONS'S paper is really a miniature monogr...

Notes

01 February 1957 Comments Notes Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ãœ1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXVIII. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull

01 February 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates 9-1i) W E are fortunate to be able to publish this month photographs from Hungary of the Mediterranean Black-headed Gull (Larus melanocephalus) taken by D r . Peter Beretzk of the University of Szeged. D r . Beretzk has also been kind enough to gi...

Report on bird-ringing for 1955

01 February 1957 Comments Main paper Secretary, Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology. THIS is the nineteenthf report issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee. It combines a report on the progress of ringing during 1955 with a selected list of recoveries reported ...

Letter

01 April 1953 Comments Letters SIRS.--I am trying to collect information about ultra-quiet bird song (sub-song, etc.) and I should be grateful if you would allow me to appeal through the medium of British Birds for any help that other observers can give me. As records on this subject a...

Reviews

01 April 1953 Comments Reviews Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society. Twenty-first Annual Report, 1951. Edited by B. H. Ryves, A. G. Parsons and H. M. Quick. T H I S report follows its usual make-up, with systematic notes split up over 3 sections ; there are also separate ta...

Reviews

01 April 1953 Comments Reviews Mountain Birds. By R. A. H. Coombes. Plates by G. E. Lodge. (Penguin Books, King Penguin series, London, 1952). 4s. 6d. Mountain Birds is written and illustrated with grasp and originality, but is only permitted by the King Penguin format to deal with six...

Secondary song: a tentative classification

01 April 1953 Comments Main paper MY object in this short paper is to suggest a more exact terminology as a preliminary to further investigation of the fascinating problems of those quiet secondary songs which, since Nicholson (1927) drew attention to them, have come to be generally known...

Studies of some species rarely photographed, XLVIII. Little Bittern

01 April 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 17-24). of these fine photographs of the Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) were taken in Holland, the others in the Camargue--two localities which give some indication of the breeding range of the species close to Britain, in spite of the fact t...

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Notes

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXVIII. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull

Report on bird-ringing for 1955

Letter

Reviews

Reviews

Secondary song: a tentative classification

Studies of some species rarely photographed, XLVIII. Little Bittern

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