News and comment

01 February 1967
Comments News and comment T h e National Cage Birds Show.--As usual, the National Cage Birds Show at London's Olympia from 8th to ioth December 1966 was dominated by canaries and budgerigars, and there seemed to be even fewer foreign species of special interest to the British fiel...
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Reviews

01 February 1967
Comments Reviews In Search of Birds. By Collingwood Ingram. Witherby, London, 1966. 286 pages. 30s. This is a colourful patchwork quilt of sixty years' and a very good thirty shillings' worth of ornithological observations, experiences and ruminations, which no one with e...
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Notes

01 February 1967
Comments Notes Fulmars sitting in trees.--Fulmars Fulmarus glaciatis in east Sutherland have been noted for their versatility ever since Frank Darling and Averil Morley recorded that they -were frequenting the roof of Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, in 1947 {Brit. Birds, 40: ...
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Tits and Peanuts

01 August 1948
Comments Main paper DURING the hard weather in February, 1947, my wife and 1 found a small cache of peanuts, preserved in the house since 1939, when we had been in the habit of stringing these together and hanging them up for the tits. On February 12th, therefore, I hung up...
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