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01 September 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...

Notes

01 September 1959 Comments Notes Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) have been known to breed on the Flannan Isles, some 20 miles west of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, since 1904 ( W . Eagle Clarke, Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1905, pp. 8-19 and 80-86). However, apart from the discovery of colo...

Obituaries: Gustav Kramer (1910-1959), James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959), John Hugh Owen (1877-1959)

01 September 1959 Comments Obituaries personal friend to many of us but also a serious blow to ornithology and to international science. To many ornithologists he was mainly known through his pioneer studies in bird navigation--which were both original and penetrating--but he did equally outs...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: C. Ruff

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper IN OUR AVIFAUNA the Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) is the most extreme example of a " l e k " b i r d ; a species which, like the Blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix) and many other gallinaceous birds, birds of paradise (Paradiseidae), Gould's Manakin (Manacus manacus) ...

Text of an automatic nest-recorder

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper By TOMOO ROYAMA of Forest-Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, Japan) VARIOUS DEVICES have been described by various authors for the purpose of registering visiting frequencies by birds to their nests (see Kendeigh, 1952 ; Gibb, 1956). An...

Variation in a population of Yellow Wagtails

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper DURING 1957 and 1958 several greyish-headed yellow wagtails, which appeared to be identical in appearance with Sykes's W a g tail (Motacilla flava beema) of western Siberia, bred at Beddington sewage farm, Hackbridge, Surrey. Since the discovery by Arnold...

Notes

01 November 1954 Comments Notes known that the Heron {Ardea cinerea) frequently eats eels, but there are probably few photographs in existence showing - the nestling's capacity to swallow them. The photograph reproduced on plate 65 was taken at Noorden, Holland, on May 1st, iqj4,. when ...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds. LX. Caspian Tern

01 November 1954 Comments Main paper (Plates 61-64). T H E Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) is perhaps the most impressive of all the terns on account of its large size, approaching: that of the Herring Gull (Larus argentatus), and because of its massive, shining orange-red bill, of which a...

Report on bird-ringing for 1953

01 November 1954 Comments Main paper T H I S is the seventeenth reportf issued on behalf of the Committee, continuing the earlier sequence under the title " T h e British Birds Marking S c h e m e " . It combines a report on the progress of ringing during 1953 with a selected list of recover...

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Recent reports and News

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Obituaries: Gustav Kramer (1910-1959), James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959), John Hugh Owen (1877-1959)

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: C. Ruff

Text of an automatic nest-recorder

Variation in a population of Yellow Wagtails

Notes

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds. LX. Caspian Tern

Report on bird-ringing for 1953

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