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A statistical examination of the Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access of the great flood of rarities from east Sussex and west Kent during the first two decades of this century, from the internal evidence presented by the statistical aspects of the records themselves. The consequences of various hypotheses which assume t...

Editorial: Setting the record straight

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access D E P A R T I N G F R O M our normal pattern, we are devoting the whole of this much enlarged issue of British Birds to a single main subject, known already to some, and soon to be familiar to many, as the case of the Hastings Rarities. Half a century ...

The Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access CONTENTS Introduction Definition of the Hastings Rarities Peculiarities of the pattern Comparison with current experience Observers and collectors Prices and collections Possibilities of cool deception Publication and correspondenceO F T H E 520 F O E ...

Notes

01 June 1943 Comments Notes As The Handbook of British Birds states that the Wood-Lark (Lullula a. arborea) does not apparently now nest in Essex, it is perhaps worth recording that on April n t h , 1943 I found a nest of this species on a piece of rough ground a few miles south of...

An investigation into the roles of males in relation to incubation

01 June 1943 Comments Main paper IN response to the Editor's request, I will endeavour in this paper to throw some fresh light on the subject of Incubation, of which we appear to have far from a full understanding. I claim no more than an attempt to probe into a subject of great complexi...

Some Observations on the Marsh-Harrier

01 June 1943 Comments Main paper (Plates 1-4.) THE status of the Marsh-Harrier {Circus a. esruginosus) as a breeding bird in Great Britain has for many years been very precarious. For at least 45 years' prior to 1915 there are no records of successful breeding though three attempts were ...

Review

01 June 1943 Comments Reviews Bird Display : An Introduction to the study of Bird Psychology. By Edward A. Armstrong. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1942). Illustrated: 2 1 / - n e t ; T H I S is certainly one of t h e most useful and welcome bird books t h a t have appeared for a long time,...

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