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01 April 1957 Comments Reviews By LEONARD W . W I N G . (Ronald Press Company, New York, 1956). 539 pages, 222 textfigures and numerous tables. Price $6.75. THERE is g r e a t need at the present time for a general biology of birds covering the whole field, and the present book fills ...

Notes

01 April 1957 Comments Notes of Boelus, Nebraska, informs me that he wing-tipped a young female White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) whilst shooting on the North Platte river in the autumn of 1903 or 1904--he is not sure which---and took the bird back to his farm. H e goes on to say...

Neottiophilum Praeustum in birds' nests

01 April 1957 Comments Main paper Diptera with n o close relatives, being" the only member of the family Neottiophilidae. T h e larvae are ectoparasites of nestling birds and live in the lining of the nest, periodically attaching themselves to the nestlings and sucking blood. They are thu...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXX. Kite

01 April 1957 Comments Main paper THE K I T E or Red Kite (Milvus milvus) has a much more restricted rÃÂ¤nge than its close relative, the Black Kite (M. migrans), of which we published photographs just a year ago (antea, vol. xlix, plates 5-7, pp. 140-141). It is usually, too, a much...

The rarer birds of Prey: Their Present Status in the British Isles

01 April 1957 Comments Main paper Their Present Status in the British Isles T H E BIRDS OF PREY are a fascinating- group. They always attract attention and arouse an unusual degree of admiration or persecution according to outlook. Largely for that reason their distribution and their bree...

Letters

01 July 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--At a meeting held in Aberdaron on March 7th, 1953, a committee was formed to establish a permanent observatory on the island of Bardsey. The position of the Island, at the very tip of the Lleyn Peninsula, makes it an ideal site for the study of bir...

Notice and Requests for Information

01 July 1953 Comments Editorials Ornithological Congress, presided over by Sir Landsborough Thomson, London, will be held in Basle, Switzerland, from May 29th to June 5th, 1954. During the week of the Congress, 5 days will be devoted to meetings and 2 to excursions. Before and after the ...

Reviews

01 July 1953 Comments Reviews Yorkshire Birds. By Ralph Chislett. (A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., 1953). 25s. Mr. Chislett lists among his qualifications for this work a professional training as a chartered accountant, and although he notes sadly that the application to bird records of effect...

Notes

01 July 1953 Comments Notes Birds with abnormal bills.--With reference to previous notes on this subject (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 60, 349-50; vol. xlv, p. 402), we have received several more records of bill deformities and the following are worth quoting :OYSTERCATCHER (Hcetnatopus os...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. L. Little Egret

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 36-41) LITTLE EGRETS (Egretta garzetta) had been recorded in the British Isles only on some twelve occasions before 1952 when, however (see p p . 255-258), the species w a s observed in four counties-- Cornwall (March 2nd-i7th), Norfolk (May 7 t h...

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Reviews

Notes

Neottiophilum Praeustum in birds' nests

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXX. Kite

The rarer birds of Prey: Their Present Status in the British Isles

Letters

Notice and Requests for Information

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. L. Little Egret

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