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01 November 1963 Comments Notes IT has long been known that, in the Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) the mandibles cross indifferently on either side in different individuals. Recently, however, for a special purpose, I desired to ascertain whether or not individuals having the man...

Manx Ornithological Notes: 1912-13.

01 November 1963 Comments Main paper THE following notes continue the Manx record from the end of the period covered by the article in BRITISH BIRDS, Vol. V., pp. 300-4, to the end of the year 1913. There is still, probably, a lack of information about some of our smaller species, but the Ye...

A Student of Gulls.

01 November 1963 Comments Main paper THAT Ornithology sustained a heavy potential loss by the death of Ewen Kennedy, in 1909, a t the early age of twenty-eight, is evident by a perusal of his notes, put together in beautiful form* by the loving hand of his sister, Mrs. Maedonald. Beyond a ch...

Two Yellow-Headed Wagtails at Fair Isle: A New British Bird

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper T w o ist-winter examples of the Yellow-headed W a g t a i l (Motacilla citreola), a Siberian species not previously recorded in the British Isles, were captured at Fair Isle on 20th September and 1 st October 1954. The first, ringed' B 88594, w a s caugh...

Siberian Thrush on the Isle of May: A New British Bird

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper O N 2nd October 1954 an adult male Siberian Thrush (Turdus sibiricus) was trapped on the Isle of May. It had been glimpsed, but not positively identified, shortly before dusk on the previous day and was still present on the island when we left on the 4th....

Stilt Sandpiper in Yorkshire: A New British Bird

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper O N 31st August 1954 Peter W a t e r t o n and Edward E . Jackson, who were staying at the Spurn Bird Observatory, noticed an unusual wader on marshy land north of Kilnsea, Yorkshire. The descriptions they g a v e did not fit any bird ever known to have v...

Wilson's Phalarope In Fife: A New British Bird

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper O N the afternoon of the n t h September 1954 we were birdwatching on an area of reclaimed ground between North Queensferry and Rosyth Dockyards, Fife, where there are two shallow fresh water pools. The two pools are separated from each other by a raised ...

American Land birds in Western Europe

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper DURING the past ten years it has become increasingly apparent that the status of American land-bird vagrants in the British Isles would have t o be reconsidered. One of us ( R . S . R . F . ) wrote in 1950 t o t h e B . O . U . List-Committee, which was t...

Editorial

01 January 1955 Comments Editorials arisen in maintaining the standards and developing the scope and service of this journal during the 195o's, following the early death of H. F. Witherby's chosen successor, B. W. Tucker. We explained how the capacity of the team which had then been improvi...

Letters

01 January 1955 Comments Letters " A N T I N G " BY B I R D S S I R S , -- T h e announcement by the Editors of British Birds (antea, vol. xlvii, p p . 312-313), based on the work of H . Poulsen, that " a n t i n g " by birds is "quite a u t o m a t i c " and is merely performed to rub o...

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