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01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Letters

01 December 1956 Comments Letters I N T E R P R E T A T I O N O F V A R I A T I O N AMONG T H E YELLOW WAGTAILS S I R S , -- May I ask a little of your space in which to comment on some points in Dr. Mayr's summing-up (antea, pp. 115-119) of our present state of knowledge of the Yellow Wa...

Reviews

01 December 1956 Comments Reviews Edited by Major-General H . P . W . HUTSON, C.B., D . S . O . , O . B . E . , M.C. (Published by British Ornithologists' Union and distributed by H . F . & G. Witherby, Ltd., London, 1956). 268 pages. 21/-, postage 1/6. MANY ornithologists who spend much...

Notes

01 December 1956 Comments Notes Albinism related to age.--With reference to notes on this subject (antea, vol. xlvii, p . 406; vol. xlix, p . 153), I have come across a similar case, also with a male Blackbird (Turdus merula). The bird was ringed at Burgess Hill, Sussex, on 13th Decembe...

The Food of Nestling Purple Herons in Holland

01 December 1956 Comments Main paper IN late June 1956 we visited two colonies of Purple Herons (Ardea purpurea) in Holland in order to observe feeding and other behaviour for comparison with our studies in England of the Common Heron (A. cinerea). The colonies visited were at the Naardermee...

Obituary: A. W. P. Robertson (1908-1956)

01 December 1956 Comments Obituaries COMMANDER Alexander William Parrish Robertson, R . N . (Retd)., died on 13th June, 1956. Born a t Harlow, Essex, in August 1908 and educated at Harrow, he entered the Royal Navy in 1926 and served in China, the Mediterranean and Australia, followed by ser...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXVI. Osprey

01 December 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 65-72) LIKE a number of the birds of prey, the Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) is a widespread species and h a s a breeding-range which extends from Alaska in the north-west to Australia in the south-east. It is, however, mainly a bird of the northern ...

Movements of House Sparrows

01 December 1956 Comments Main paper T H E migration of birds--the routes they take, the means by which they orient themselves and reach their destination--is at present receiving' considerable attention. The House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) is generally considered to be a sedentary bird an...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

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The Food of Nestling Purple Herons in Holland

Obituary: A. W. P. Robertson (1908-1956)

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXVI. Osprey

Movements of House Sparrows

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