Recent reports and News

01 March 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Letters

01 March 1959 Comments Letters "SUB-SONG" AND "SECONDARY SONG" SIRS,---With regard to the paper by Miss P. M. Piicher and myself on "The nature of sub-song" (antea, vol. li, pp. 509-514), I very much regret to find that we were incorrect in stating that the term "sub-song" was used by ...
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Reviews

01 March 1959 Comments Reviews By JAMES C. GREENWAY, Jnr. Illustrated by D. M. REID-HENRY. (Special Publication No. 13, American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, New York, 1958). 518 pages; a coloured frontispiece and 86 ink drawings; maps and diagrams. THIS IS A DISP...
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Notes

01 March 1959 Comments Notes Display of Little Grebe.--A display by a Little Grebe (Padiceps ruficolUs) near Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorkshire, on 4th May 1957, seems to have been a form of penguin-dance (antea, vol. L, pp. 269-270) and does not appear to' be covered by the account in The ...
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Letter

01 October 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,--In connexion with t h e discussion of this subject (antea, pp. 248-50) it is perhaps worth mentioning t h a t in September, 1911, I watched quantities of Great Shearwaters in t h e Bay of Biscay on a voyage to Bordeaux on the 6th, and on the return...
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Reviews

01 October 1939 Comments Reviews South-Eastern Bird Report, 1938. Edited by Ralph Whitlock. (R, Whitlock, Pitton, Salisbury.) 3s, 6d. THIS Report is now published under the auspices of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies and a committee of management under the chairmanship of...
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Notes

01 October 1939 Comments Notes FOR some years a pair of Grey Wagtails (Motacilla c. cinerea) have nested in and round a house in Ireland choosing as sites the window ledges of upstairs windows or the thick stems of a Virginian creeper, the nest being either built along a branch or in ...
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