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Crossbills in Sweden in 1953

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

01 May 1957 Comments Notes Vagrants at Skokholm in September 1956.--At Skokholm the period gth-i2th September 1956 was one of outstanding interest, with consid'erable variety of common migrants and four species which are major rarities in Wales. T w o juvenile Ortolan Buntings (Emb...

Field-notes on some birds of South-East Europe: LXXXI. Ortolan Bunting

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper T H E S E notes are compiled from field-observations made by the writers in south-east Europe in the autumn of 1956. W e travelled via Venice and the Adriatic (28th August-2nd September), through Greece (Athens, 3rd-5th September; Delphi, 6th-8th Septembe...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper Photographed by K. (Plates 33-35) only a vagrant in Britain, the Ortolan Bunting (Emberisa hortulana) has a wide distribution in the Palaearctic region, breeding in most parts of Continental Europe from Spain in the south to the arctic circle in the north...

The past and present status of the Buzzard in the British Isles

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper MYXOMATOSIS spread from the Continent of Europe to the British Isles late in the summer of 1953. The Buzzard (Buteo buteo), which was known to feed extensively on Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), was likely to be indirectly affected by the disease, so tha...

Reviews

01 May 1957 Comments Reviews By a Committee of the London Natural History Society (Chairman: R. C. Homes). (Collins, London, 1957). 305 pages, 40 photographs, 5 maps. 30s. O F THE MANY and varied ways in which man has stamped his history and methods of life upon the surface of the w...

Obituary: Stuart Smith, D.Sc, Ph.D. (1906-1963)

01 October 1955 Comments Obituaries T H E U N T I M E L Y D E A T H of Dr. Stuart Smith on j t h August, 1963 as a result of unexpected complications following an operation which it had been anticipated would be a comparatively minor one, has deprived British ornithology of one of its most ...

Recent reports

01 October 1955 Comments News and comment [These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] This summary is mainly concerned with the period from 21st July to 10th September. Highlights included a heavy passage of northern waders, a striking movement of Black Terns, the now annual ...

News and comment

01 October 1955 Comments News and comment Annual Conference.--The Annual Conference of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club will be held at the Hotel Dunblane (formerly Dunblane Hydro Hotel), Perthshire, from 25 th to 27th October. Guest speakers will be Dr. Kai CurryLindahl, from Stockholm, on 'Bi...

Request for information

01 October 1955 Comments Editorials Status and distribution of the Chough.--There ate indications that the Chough {Pyrrbocorax pyrrhocorax) has been increasing during the last decade in Wales and the Isle of Man, but in the absence of any systematic survey there is no definite evidence. The...

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