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01 April 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. Miller Christy, in his very interesting letter in your last issue (p. 91), remarks t h a t I have n o t done justice t o the bird-life on Walthamstow Reservoirs, b u t I must point o u t t h a t m y note was only intended to record t h e nestin...

Reviews

01 April 1963 Comments Reviews Aberdeen University Bird-migration Inquiry: First Interim Report (1909-12). By A. Landsborough Thomson, M.A., M.B.O.U. (Reprinted from the Scottish Naturalist, July, October, November, 1912 ; February, April and June, 1913.) THESE papers give details of t...

Notes

01 April 1963 Comments Notes W E have received a good many schedules relating to these two inquiries (see Vol. VI., pp. 296-311, and Vol. VII, pp. 4-6), but we sincerely hope that many more of our readers will send in particulars. This should now be done without delay, and if the fo...

On Incubation

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper As has previously been shown,* many birds belonging to various Orders commence incubation upon the laying of the first egg. This habit is undoubtedly of the utmost value to many species, saving the eggs from destruction by the numerous animals which devou...

Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Common Eider. As Observed in the Outer Hebrides.

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper this summer (1913) we found a good many pairs of Eiders (Somateria m. mollissima) nesting in the northern portion of a certain large fresh-water loch in the Outer Hebrides, The birds were, however, very shy at the nest, and even with a long-focus lens it ...

On the Breeding-Season and Clutch of the Steganopodes. (Cormorant, Shag, and Gannet.)

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper ONLY three members of this Order figure on the British List, and some of the facts concerning their reproductive habits are sufficiently interesting to deserve a fuller treatment than they have received up to the present in the standard books on the habi...

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...

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Letters

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Notes

On Incubation

Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Common Eider. As Observed in the Outer Hebrides.

On the Breeding-Season and Clutch of the Steganopodes. (Cormorant, Shag, and Gannet.)

Short index of English names of birds

Letters

Reviews

Notes

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