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Letters

01 February 1956 Comments Letters S I R S , -- A census of breeding Great Black-backed Gulls (Larus marinns) in England and W a l e s in 1956 has been approved as an investigation of the British Trust for Ornithology. As organise* I shall be glad of offers of help from those who are willi...

Reviews

01 February 1956 Comments Reviews By SETON GORDON, C.B.E. (Collins " New N a t u r a l i s t , " London, 1955). 246 pages, 17 photographs. 16s. A MONOGRAPH on the Golden Eagle in Scotland is long overdue and who could have produced a better one than Seton Gordon? For half a century the a...

Notes

01 February 1956 Comments Notes Displacement coition in the Mallard.--On ioth May, 1951, a t Clayton-le-dale, near Blackburn, Lancashire, I was engaged in watching the behaviour of a pair of Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) tending fifteen young, which were newly hatched. T h e young fed fo...

Birds of a Trans-Atlantic Voyage in Late Spring 1954

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory) ALTHOUGH there are many papers concerning- the birds observed during- transects of the North Atlantic there is still room for advancement of our knowledge of seasonal distribution over this vast expanse of ocean. The present p...

Delayed Emigration of Certain Birds in Autumn 1954

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper SEVERAL notes received by the Editors of British Birds in the winter of 1954-55 confirmed the impression of some individual observers that the departure of migratory birds, both summervisitors and passage-migrants, had been unusually delayed in the autumn...

The Migrations of British Chats

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper T H E purpose of this paper is to analyse the recovery records of birds of species of " c h a t s " ringed in the British Isles under the scheme now managed by the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and earlier by the late H . F ....

Records of Wood Sandpipers in Britain in the Autumn of 1952

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the autumn of 1952, as noted previously (antea, vol. xlv, p. 432), a considerable passage of W o o d Sandpipers (Tringa glareola) was observed in many parts of Great Britain, particularly in the south-east. There is some evidence that the numbers o...

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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