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01 September 1959 Comments Notes with Mackerel shoals.--During- the months of July, August and September, Mackerel (Scomber scomber) habitually enter the Village Bay of Hirta, St, Kilda, in the late afternoon and evening. These shoals are often pursued by Grey Seals (Halichoerus gryphus)...

Fulmars in the North Atlantic in the summers of 1956 and 1958

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper IN 1956 WE MADE two crossings of the North Atlantic on the small Royal Netherlands ship "Groote Beer", from Montreal to Southampton in June, and back in September. We kept records of all the birds we saw, but the following notes, compiled from half-hourly...

The September drift-movements of 1956 and 1958.Part 1ÑGeneral Summary and Weather Conditions

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper were extensive drift-arrivals of migratory birds on the east coast of Britain. These were made up almost entirely of species which are summer-visitors to Europe and widely distributed in Scandinavia and the countries surrounding: the Baltic Sea. As might ...

The food of nestling Rooks near Oxford

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper frugilegus) carried out while I was holding a Nature Conservancy Post-Graduate Studentship at the Edward Grey Institute, Oxford, in 1952 and 1953. All four rookeries concerned were within 10 miles of Oxford and were on rather similar farming land. T h e f...

Observations on the Fulmar in Spitsbergen

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper T H E WRITERS spent the period 23rd July-i8th August 1957 observing- a colony of Atlantic Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) on the south-east shore of Tempelfiord, W e s t Spitsbergen, adjacent to the east side of the mouth of Sassendalen. Although the Fulmar ...

Letters

01 September 1959 Comments Letters K I L D A W R E N S ON STAC AN A R M I N SIRS,--Following- the publication of the recent letters by the Rev. E. A. Armstrong and Mr. Kenneth Williamson on the St. Kilda W r e n (Troglodytes t. hirtensis) (antea, pp. 136-138), we feel that the following i...

Reviews

01 September 1959 Comments Reviews Chapman & Hall, London, 1959). xi + 624 p a g e s ; many text illustrations. 94s. T H E DISTINGUISHED senior author unfortunately did not live to see the completion of this useful work of reference. It is a well produced and suitably illustrated volume, o...

Letters

01 September 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Vosges mountains in France during the first World War earthenware pots especially designed for sparrows to nest in were to be seen on the walls of a great many farms and I have no doubt the practice still persists. These served a double purp...

Reviews

01 September 1953 Comments Reviews Rare and Extinct Birds of Britain. By Ralph Whitlock. (Phcenix House, London, 1953). 21s. I t is open to question whether a satisfactory book can be written on the subject of our rare and extinct birds. To contribute anything original to knowledge in this...

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01 September 1953 Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...

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Fulmars in the North Atlantic in the summers of 1956 and 1958

The September drift-movements of 1956 and 1958.Part 1ÑGeneral Summary and Weather Conditions

The food of nestling Rooks near Oxford

Observations on the Fulmar in Spitsbergen

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Reviews

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