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01 March 1961 Comments Reviews Atlas of European Birds. By K. H . Voous. N e l s o n , London, i960. 284 pages; 419 maps and 355 photographs. 70s. One of the post-war developments in ornithology has been the attention given to bird distribution. There has been a growing realisation of ...

Notes

01 March 1961 Comments Notes Beetles in the plumage of birds.--On 25 th May 1959 I picked up a freshly dead Swift (Apus apus) on the sloping concrete bank of Hilfield Park Reservoir, Hertfordshire. On examining the bird I discovered a single beetle of the species Haltka ohracearighti...

A survey of moulting Shelduck on Knechtsand

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper sand-banks which lies 8.1 nautical miles from the German mainland between Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven. It extends from 8Â°i8'E to 8Â°29'i5"E and from 5 3 V ' i 8 " N to 5 3Â°46'i5"N. Robins Balje is a natural boundary on the south-west side, while the ...

Warbler fluctuations in Oak Woodland in the Severn Valley

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper T w o P R E V I O U S P A P E R S of mine in British Birds (1935, 1950) gave population statistics for the Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) and four species of warbler--Willow Warbler (Pbylloscopus trnchilus), Chiffchaff (PL collybitd), Garden Warbler ...

The contamination of birds with pollen and other substances

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper A s A RESULTof an appeal in a paper by Ash (195 9), further specimens of polleniferous contaminants, some containing other substances, were removed from the heads of migrant birds in i960. The most notable contribution was made by P.H.J, in the Camargue, ...

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01 October 1947 Comments Reviews More Birds of the Day. By Eric Hosking and Cyril Newberry. (Collins, London, 1946). 125 6d. net. The great popularity of t h e authors' Birds of the Day has led t h e m to follow this up with a sequel providing a no less admirable picture gallery of Briti...

Notes

01 October 1947 Comments Notes ON June 22nd, 1947, in a wood just outside Calais, I had a good view of a male Golden Oriole (Oriolus 0. oriolus), sitting in sunlight on a bare twig of a lombardy poplar, about 30 feet from the ground. It called continuously for about eight minutes. The...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. X. The Purple Heron

01 October 1947 Comments Main paper (Plates 26-31), THE striking series of photographs of the Purple Heron (Ardea p, purpurea) now published, were taken in the district of the Camargue (Rhone Delta) in May and June of the present year, 1947. This species is characteristically a reed-bed ne...

Some notes on the Spectacled Warbler in the Maltese Islands

01 October 1947 Comments Main paper September 1941 until July 1945,1 was stationed in Malta and was able to devote much of my spare time to studying the bird-life of the islands. Malta, together with the sister isles of Gozo, Comino and Fihia, is primarily of interest to the ornithologist a...

Notes on Sand-Martins

01 October 1947 Comments Main paper IN view of the recent notes on the display of the Sand-Martin (Riparia r. riparia) by A. Watson (antea, Vol. xxxix, p. 282) and A. S. Thom (antea, p. 20) the following notes may be of interest. My observations were made between 1942 and 1945 along the ri...

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Reviews

Notes

A survey of moulting Shelduck on Knechtsand

Warbler fluctuations in Oak Woodland in the Severn Valley

The contamination of birds with pollen and other substances

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. X. The Purple Heron

Some notes on the Spectacled Warbler in the Maltese Islands

Notes on Sand-Martins

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