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Short index of English names of birds

01 December 1960 Comments Editorials This simplified index is confined to the numbers of the first pages of papers, notes and letters on the species concerned. Casual references to other species within the text are not included, nor are birds discussed in reviews or in the "Recent reports an...

Letters

01 December 1960 Comments Letters International ornithological congresses Sirs,--In his review of the Proceedings of the XII International Ornithological Congress {Brit. Birds, 53: 447-452) your reviewer makes some most relevant observations concerning the present nature of these meetings...

Reviews

01 December 1960 Comments Reviews The Isle of May. By W. J. Eggeling. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1960. xiv-j-280 pages; 20 photographic plates, 30s. The firm of Oliver & Boyd has for some time been earning a deservedly high reputation for the publication of natural history books...

Notes

01 December 1960 Comments Notes Aggressive behaviour of Barrow's Goldeneye with young.-- Although Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) does not figure on the British and Irish list, the following notes may be of interest as an instance of an aggressive attitude during the breeding s...

Notes on the behaviour of Whiskered Terns

01 December 1960 Comments Main paper made at a colony of Whiskered Terns {Chlidonias bybridd) at La Tour du Valat in the Camargue, France, during the summer of 1959. My first visit to the colony was on 29th June, by which time there were already some young ones. I thus missed much of the ear...

Studies of less familiar birds 109. Black Wheatear

01 December 1960 Comments Main paper T H E B L A C K W H E A T E A R (Oenantbe leucurd) has a very restricted range in south-west Europe and north-west Africa. In Europe it is confined to Portugal, the southern three-quarters of Spain (including the Balearic Islands) and the small part of so...

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain during 1957-59

01 December 1960 Comments Main paper I N 1 9 5 9 , T W E N T Y - O N E YEARS after the species first nested at Tring Reservoirs, Hertfordshire, just under ioo pairs of Little Ringed Plovers (Charadrius dubius) are known to have spent the summer in Britain. This is a sizeable increase from th...

List of illustrations

01 December 1960 Comments Editorials Lammergeier (Gypaitus barbatus), adult at nest, Spain (from a Kodachrome by Eric Hosking) .. .. , , facing Rose-brcastcd Grosbeak (Pbeucticus ludovicianus), male summer and winter, and female; American Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica), adult and yo...

Reviews

01 July 1939 Comments Reviews Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, Vol. X X I , Part I. T H I S contains a very well deserved tribute to Mr. Charles Oldham, signed by a number of naturalist friends and addressed to him on the occasion of his sevent...

Notes

01 July 1939 Comments Notes I THINK it will be of interest to record a case of bigamy in Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus), which I had under observation in England during the summer of 1938. It is well known that this species has a tendency to nest in small colonies, but I do no...

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Short index of English names of birds

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Notes on the behaviour of Whiskered Terns

Studies of less familiar birds 109. Black Wheatear

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain during 1957-59

List of illustrations

Reviews

Notes

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