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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... Read More

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 ränge 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... Read More

Letters

01 May 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. N. D. Pullen, Mr. H. G. Hurrell and Miss N. C. Hicks (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300 and 360) have drawn attention t o an interesting problem of behaviour. I have observed t h e " digging " in the bottom of the nest, as described by the abov... Read More

Some Remarks on Sex behaviour of Doves

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper The Handbook of British Birds' (Vol. v, p. 280) states on the authority of O. and M. Heinroth that the male Rock-Dove [Columba livid) feeds the female before coition. I think one may safely assume that the pairing ceremonials of the wild and domesticated ... Read More