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01 July 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--At a meeting held in Aberdaron on March 7th, 1953, a committee was formed to establish a permanent observatory on the island of Bardsey. The position of the Island, at the very tip of the Lleyn Peninsula, makes it an ideal site for the study of bir...

Notice and Requests for Information

01 July 1953 Comments Editorials Ornithological Congress, presided over by Sir Landsborough Thomson, London, will be held in Basle, Switzerland, from May 29th to June 5th, 1954. During the week of the Congress, 5 days will be devoted to meetings and 2 to excursions. Before and after the ...

Reviews

01 July 1953 Comments Reviews Yorkshire Birds. By Ralph Chislett. (A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., 1953). 25s. Mr. Chislett lists among his qualifications for this work a professional training as a chartered accountant, and although he notes sadly that the application to bird records of effect...

Notes

01 July 1953 Comments Notes Birds with abnormal bills.--With reference to previous notes on this subject (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 60, 349-50; vol. xlv, p. 402), we have received several more records of bill deformities and the following are worth quoting :OYSTERCATCHER (Hcetnatopus os...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. L. Little Egret

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 36-41) LITTLE EGRETS (Egretta garzetta) had been recorded in the British Isles only on some twelve occasions before 1952 when, however (see p p . 255-258), the species w a s observed in four counties-- Cornwall (March 2nd-i7th), Norfolk (May 7 t h...

The migrations of the Lesser Black-backed Gull

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper T H E following- report covers the summer extension of an Enquiry into the status of the Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) which was opened in November, 1949. Owing- to the promising response to the announcement of this enquiry by the British Trust ...

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper FOUR previous papers have appeared in British Birds giving the results of field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit (Parus palustris), based on a study of colour-ringed and some unringed individuals in a 50-acre tract of W e s t Wood, Bagley, N. ...

Seasonal fluctuations in the song of the Sky-Lark

01 February 1947 Comments Main paper ALTHOUGH a great deal has been written on the subject of bird song, relatively little is known about seasonal and daily fluctuations in song output. Alexander's [i, 2] work accounts for a very large number of species and gives the dates between which bir...

Letters

01 February 1947 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference to Colonel Ryves's note (antea, Vol. xxxix, p. 375} oa a clutch of two eggs only, of the Blackbird (Turdus Â»Â». merula), I wish to point out that this number of eggs for a full clutch is not extremely abnormal. I cannot but thin...

Reviews

01 February 1947 Comments Reviews South-Eastern Bird Report, being an Account of Bird-Life in Kent, Surrey and Sussex during 1944. Edited by Ralph Whitlock. Ditto (including Hampshire) for 1945. THE 1944 South-Eastern Report, delayed by printing difficulties, was not available when our no...

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Notice and Requests for Information

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Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. L. Little Egret

The migrations of the Lesser Black-backed Gull

Field observations on the biology of the Marsh Tit

Seasonal fluctuations in the song of the Sky-Lark

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