Notes

01 March 1962
Comments Notes Peregrine incubating Kestrel's eggs.--On 13 th May 1961, I was prospecting some crags in the Great Glen, Inverness-shire, in the hope of rinding a pair of nesting Peregrines (Falco peregrinus). As I approached the most likely-looking face from below, a fe...
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Foot-paddling in Gulls

01 March 1962
Comments Main paper I S H O U L D L I K E to supplement the interesting comments recently made by Sparks (1961) on the functions of foot-paddling in gulls, since more is known about it than is apparent from his article. In my book The Herring Gull's World (1953), where I ref...
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Letters

01 December 1955
Comments Letters Further remarks on discoloration in House Sparrows Sirs,--The observations of C. J. O. Harrison (Brit. Birds, 56: 296-297) on 'industrial' discoloration in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and other birds prompt us to record information on an allied pro...
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Reviews

01 December 1955
Comments Reviews A Mosaic of Islands. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1963. 183 pages index; 22 black-and-white photographs; text-drawings and m - p s . 21s. The more remote islands around our coast have always held a great f...
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Notes

01 December 1955
Comments Notes Peregrines rearing young Kestrels.--On n t h April 1963 W. N. Charles and I flushed a Peregrine {Fako peregrinus) from its eyrie in an old Raven (Corvus corax) nest in the Dumfriesshire hills. There were four eggs, one of which we took (under licence) for...
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