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01 June 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largelv unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from soiirccs generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of s...

Letters

01 June 1958 Comments Letters S I R S , -- U n d e r the above title (anlea, vol. L, p p . 432-434), R. Hewson has usefully drawn attention to the aerobatics-- familiar in individuals--that are sometimes performed by flocks of Ravens (Corvus corax) and has discussed questions suggeste...

Reviews

01 June 1958 Comments Reviews day Â·& Co., New York, 1949--first edition 1946--sponsored by the National Audubon Society). $3.95. A U D U B O N W A T E R B I R D G U I D E (Water, game and large land birds of eastern and central North America from southern Texas to central Greenland...

Notes

01 June 1958 Comments Notes " R e c e n t reports and n e w s " section in our March number (antea, p . 132), brief mention was made of the fact that a number of North American Ruddy Ducks (Oxyura jamaicensis) had escaped from the Wildfowl Trust collection at Slimbridge, Gloucesters...

Obituary: John Arthington Walpole-Bond (1878-1958)

01 June 1958 Comments Obituaries O N 13TH JANUARY 1958, John Walpole-Bond died at his home in Hove, Sussex, in his 80th year. Educated at Winchester and St. J o h n ' s College, Oxford, Jock Bond, a s h e was known to his many friends, was a descendant of Prime Minister Walpole and was t...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXIX. Goshawk

01 June 1958 Comments Main paper T H E GOSHAWK (Accipiter gentilis) is of special interest as one of the very few birds of prey which occur on both sides of the Atlantic. It belongs t o an extensive group of species of " g o s h a w k s " (formerly placed in a separate genus Astur, b u t...

Bergmann's rule and obligatory overseas migration

01 June 1958 Comments Main paper IN THE STUDY of natural history there are well-known ecogeographical (sometimes called " c l i m a t i c " or "ecological") rules relating certain characteristics of warm-blooded animals to the conditions of their environment. One of the best-known in its...

The Sexual Displays of Swallows

01 May 1941 Comments Main paper THE quantitative aspects of the reproduction of the Swallow (Hirundo r. rustica) have been intensively studied in the enquiries of the British Trust for Ornithology (antea, Vol. XXIX, pp. 3-21, Vol. XXX, pp. 98-116) and in many other surveys; but there re...

Nest-Sanitation

01 May 1941 Comments Main paper Faeces carried; no data for first few days ; at a late stage young defaecate from the opening ; if deposited on " doorstep " they are carried; if they fall clear they are left, even if conspicuous (B.H.R., R.G.A., A.H.M.C). [Voided at entrance of nest and...

Notes

01 May 1941 Comments Notes WHEN reading Mr. D. Lack's article on the Chaffinch (antea, p. 216), I was particularly interested in the paragraph on " female song." Just over a year ago (early in March, 1940) I heard at Brent Park, Hendon, a bird singing, which I did not recognize at...

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Recent reports and news

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Reviews

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Obituary: John Arthington Walpole-Bond (1878-1958)

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXIX. Goshawk

Bergmann's rule and obligatory overseas migration

The Sexual Displays of Swallows

Nest-Sanitation

Notes

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