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Photographic studies of some less Familiar birds: LXVI. Hoopoe

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper T H E Hoopoe (Upupa epops) has already appeared in our series (vol. xlii, plates 15-17), but Mr. Doncaster's magnificent photographs are so different, and show so well the remarkable flight pattern of this bird, that we feel more than justified in publish...

Field-notes on some Asian Leaf-Warblers-II

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper T H E first part of this paper (antea, pp. 293-299) dealt with those leaf-warblers or willow warblers (Phylloscopus) which are distinguished by their pale wing-bars; in this second part I turn to those species that have no wing-bar and add notes on some v...

Special review

01 August 1955 Comments Reviews (Part II) T H E Lariformes a r e considered a separate order by the Russians and are dealt with by G. P . Dementiev. On the one hand, he writes, they approach the waders and on the other the auks. But " t h e common morphological characteristics are not n...

Notes on the Black Duck

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper T H E chances of the Black Duck (Anas rubripes) shot in Ireland on 5th February 1954 having - escaped from captivity may be regarded as negligible. Very few are kept in waterfowl collections, and although they have been bred at Slimbridge, Gloucestersh...

Black Duck in Co. Kilkenny: A Bird New To Ireland And Britain

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper O N 12th February 1954 a duck, which had been forwarded by Mr. Frank Hudson, Carriganore, Waterford, was received at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. Mr. P . E. Dunn and I identified it as a Black Duck [Anas rubripes), a native of eastern North Ame...

The mixing of the races of the Yellow Wagtail in Kenya

01 August 1955 Comments Main paper THERE is considerable controversy over the occurrence of certain east European and Asiatic races of the Yellow W a g t a i l (Motacilla flava) in Great Britain. Some ornithologists accept these records as examples of vagrancy while others claim some of th...

Nocturnal migration of Thrushes

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper OBSERVATIONS on both day and night migrants, made near Dublin in the autumn of 1952, have already been briefly reported elsewhere (Browne, 1953). Two conclusions on the nocturnal migration of thrushes seem worthy of more detailed consideration. These are ...

Some photographic studies of the American Robin

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 56-59). T H E American Robin (Turdus migratorius) has of course no particular connection with its Old World namesake (Erithacus rubecula), other than a certain similarity in the colour of the breast which doubtless caused the homesick early coloni...

American Robin on Lundy

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper PETER DAVIS (Lundy Bird Observatory). (Plate 59) AN American Robin (Turdus migratorhis) was present on Lundy from October 27th to November 8th, 1952. It was probably first seen on October 25th, by one of the islanders.On the morning- of October 27th I fou...

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