Reviews

01 May 1954
Comments Reviews Report on Dorset Birds, 1951. Edited by K. B. Rooke. Now 2S. Report on Dorset Birds, 1952, Edited by K B.. Rooke. 2s. 9d. The Wildfowl and Waders of Poole Harbour. By A. J. Bull. (1953). 2S. 9d. (All reprinted from Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist, and Arch. Soc, v...
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Reviews

01 May 1954
Comments Reviews The Birds of Scotland: Their History, Distribution, and Migration, By Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh & London, 1953). £3. 3s. THIS important contribution to British ornithology has at length appeared in two...
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Notes

01 May 1954
Comments Notes 24th, 1947, Mr. D. H. Brown and I saw at Rye Harbour, Sussex, a Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps griseigena) still in almost complete summer plumage. This bird was seen at very close range and we noted, rather casually at the time, that the whole of the bill wa...
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Letter

01 February 1943
Comments Letters SIRS,--As the Statement in The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. III, p. 109) that the Osprey (Pandion h. hali/ztus) last bred at Loch Arkaig in 1902 is incorrect this should be corrected. A pair nested regularly ever since I can remember up to 1908 and the...
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Notes

01 February 1943
Comments Notes IN February, 1942, seventy-five nesting boxes were put up inone of the oak woods of the Forest of Dean, with the object of encouraging the breeding of insectivorous birds (tits, in particular) and thus alleviating, if possible, the recurrent outbreaks of...
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The Age of the Blackbird

01 February 1943
Comments Main paper THE potential age, the age to which birds can live, has been the subject of several papers, the earlier ones based on records in captivity, e.g. Gurney (1899), Mitchell (1911), Flower (1925), and the later ones on ringing returns, e.g. Witherby (1926), Ni...
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