Letters

01 August 1953
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I was most interested to read the account by J. D. Macdonald of t h e recovery of an albatross in Derbyshire (antea, pp. I I O - I I I ) and to see the accompanying photograph (plate 13), because in m y opinion the bird was a Yellow-nosed Alb...
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Review

01 August 1953
Comments Reviews The Birds of Lancashire. By Clifford Oakes. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1953). 21s. od. One cannot fail to be impressed by the wealth of information which is presented here, and the care with which it has evidently been sifted. Local distribution, of cours...
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Notes

01 August 1953
Comments Notes On the feeding habits of the Redshank and the Spotted Redshank.-- Observations were made on the feeding of Redshank (Tringa totanus) and Spotted Redshank (T. erythropus) on a shallow, tideless mud lagoon surrounded by reeds. The method employed was to ob...
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Report on bird-ringing for 1952

01 August 1953
Comments Main paper This is the sixteenth reportf issued on behalf of the Committee, continuing the earlier sequence under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme." It combines a report on the progress of ringing during 1952, with a selected list of recent recovery reco...
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Reviews

01 December 1947
Comments Reviews [No reference is made in these notices t o t h e Waxwing invasion of 1946-7 or inland occurrences of Curlew-Sandpipers and Little Stints in 1946, as these are covered b y special reports in this and the following issues. Cornwall Bird-watching and Preser...
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Notes

01 December 1947
Comments Notes I AM indebted to the Rev. L. G. M. Sheldon, of Crowborough, Sussex, who is an experienced ornithologist and at whose vicarage these notes were made, for providing me with the following facts. In mid-April of this year, 1947, a cock Pied Wagtail (Motacill...
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The Glaucous Gull in winter

01 December 1947
Comments Main paper (Plates 40-53). SINCE the winter of 1941-42 the Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) has become a comparatively numerous winter-visitor to the Shetland Islands. At a refuse dump on the outskirts of Lerwick where it had been rare to see more than half a dozen...
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Recovery of marked birds

01 December 1947
Comments Main paper Anstruther (Fife), 15.12.46, by W. J. Eggeling. X.2847 Cleveleys (Lanes.), 10.2.47, by R. M. Band. SK.258 Wigan (Lanes.), 13.1.46, by Bootham Sen. TX.844 Douglas (I.O.M.), 18.1.47, by Cowin, Crellin, Ladds and Williamson. SK.205 York, 8.12.45, by Bootham ...
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