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01 May 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n t h e article on Incubation, b y Mr, Erie B. Dunlop (antea, p. 109), t h e writer s a y s : " Another bird which rears few young compared to t h e number of eggs it lays is t h e Great-erested Grebe. Four or five eggs are very frequently ...

Notes

01 May 1963 Comments Notes FOE some years now I have been paying particular attention to the nestlings of common birds. It is of course now known to all ornithologists that the parents keep the nest clean (as a general rule) by carrying away the excrement, and often by swallowing ...

The Sequence of Plumages of the Rook, With Special Reference to the Moult of the " Face."

01 May 1963 Comments Main paper I T has always been a disputed point as to whether the Rook (Oorvus f. frugihgus) gets its bare " face " by means of abrasion of the feathers or by a moult. Most ornithologists have favoured the moult theory or have regarded it as a " natural peculiarity....

Letters

01 February 1948 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t seems a n opportune moment for making a plea t h a t t h e scope of the British Trust Ringing Scheme should be widened by making rings available for use outside t h e British Islands. While we fully appreciate the organizational a n d sup...

Reviews

01 February 1948 Comments Reviews Aristocrats'' of the Air. By Captain C. W. R. Knight. (Williams and Norgate, London, 1946). 30s. od. The first edition of this eminently readable book was first published in 1935, but has been out of print for nearly twenty years. This, the second edition...

Notes

01 February 1948 Comments Notes DURING the years 1946 and 1947 I have noticed several species singing outside what appears to be their normal song-period as defined in The Handbook charts. Some of these variations are considerable, others less so. The particulars are as follows :-- NUT...

Studies of some rarely photographed: XIII. The Scottish Crossbill

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper Photographed by ERIC HOSKING. (Plates 9-14). We regard the title of this series as covering well-marked subspecies as well as species in the strict sense, and on this interpretation the Scottish Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra scotica) is certainly entitled...

Black Redstarts on Pett level, East Sussex

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper [The observations now published by Mr. Cooke, whose discovery of Black Terns breeding on Pett Level during the war {antea, Vol. xxxix, p. 71) will be recalled by readers, are of great interest in carrying the history of the breeding of the Black Redstart...

The Little Ringed Plover in the London area in 1947

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper IN 1947 Little Ringed Plovers (Charadrius dubius curonicus) bred in the London Area for the fourth year in succession, and there was a remarkable increase in numbers. Eight nests were found and four other broods seen. Because of the possibility that at le...

Report on the immigration of Waxwings, winter, 1947-7

01 February 1948 Comments Main paper --One in Guernsey, late December or early J a n u a r y (per B . K. Holmes). CORNWALL.--Several in Scilly, Nov. 14th to Dec. 9th (Major A. A. Dorrien Smith in Rep. Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservn. Soc.)*. SOMERSET.--One near Bath, Feb. 5th and two, Fe...

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Letters

Notes

The Sequence of Plumages of the Rook, With Special Reference to the Moult of the " Face."

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some rarely photographed: XIII. The Scottish Crossbill

Black Redstarts on Pett level, East Sussex

The Little Ringed Plover in the London area in 1947

Report on the immigration of Waxwings, winter, 1947-7

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