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01 August 1960 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 he reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

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01 August 1960 Comments Reviews The Bird in the Hand. By R. K. Cornwallis and A. E. Smith. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, i960. 69 pages. 4s. (Obtainable from the B.T.O., 2 King Edward Street, Oxford, at 4s. 6d. including postage.) At last the bird-ringer has available the type ...

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01 August 1960 Comments Notes Attempted coition by Little Stints on autumn passage.--At Radipole Lake, Weymouth, Dorset, on 4th October 1957, I became very interested in the behaviour of two Little Stints (Calidris minutd). One was making short runs or low level flights across a shall...

The past status of the Brent Goose

01 August 1960 Comments Main paper the use of extracts from the British literature to obtain historical estimates of the numbers of the Darkbreasted and Pale-breasted Brent Geese (Branta bernicla bernicla and hrotd). Salomonsen (1958) stated that "the number of Dark-breasted Brents winteri...

Autumn "drift-migration" on the English east coast

01 August 1960 Comments Main paper etc.), the view is now widely accepted that the appearances of Continental night-migrants on the British east coast in autumn are much too infrequent and irregular to be explained in terms of a regular passage there, and instead they are attributed to "dr...

Some photographs of Woodpigeon behaviour and feeding

01 August 1960 Comments Main paper behaviour patterns of the Woodpigeon {Columba palumbus). Then Cramp (1958) described the main features of territorial and nesting behaviour throughout the breeding season, as a result of a study of this species in the London parks and squares. Reference t...

Notes

01 March 1943 Comments Notes WITH reference to Mr. J. M. B. Brown's remarks on the breeding of the Pied Flycatcher in the Forest of Dean (antea, p. 179), it may be of interest to note that In 1935 I was informed by Mr. R. Hendrie, a student at the School of Forestry, Parkend, that h...

The age of Some More British Birds

01 March 1943 Comments Main paper paper is a sequel to that on the Blackbird (Turdus m. merula) (Lack, 1943a), and the latter should be read first as the remarks on treatment of material and general principles apply equally to the present paper, but are not repeated. It should be stressed...

Birds of Inner London

01 March 1943 Comments Main paper CARMICHAEL LOW DURING the period under review (1942) there have been two new records for Inner London, viz. the Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides) and the Waxwing (BombycÃ¼la g. garrulus). Of other interesting occurrences the invasion of the City by Black...

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Recent Reports and News

Reviews

Notes

The past status of the Brent Goose

Autumn "drift-migration" on the English east coast

Some photographs of Woodpigeon behaviour and feeding

Notes

The age of Some More British Birds

Birds of Inner London

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