Letters

01 August 1968 Comments Letters Waxwing omission Sirs,--Owing to a regrettable oversight, our paper on 'Waxwings in Britain and Europe during 1965/66' (Brit. Birds, 6 1 : 97-118) failed to acknowledge the work of T. Ennis and the Northern Ireland Ornithologists' Club in sending us recor...
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Recent reports

01 August 1968 Comments News and comment (These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary covers June 1968 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. A few June reports were mentioned last month {Brit. Birds, 6 1 : 527-528) where they were particula...
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News and comments

01 August 1968 Comments News and comment Industrial threats to the south-west.--The Western Morning News for 17th and 23rd May contained news of important industrial proposals likely to mar natural amenities in Devon and Cornwall. These proposals include examinations of six possible sites for po...
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Notes

01 August 1968 Comments Notes Curlew's nest with seven eggs.--In April and May 1968 a pair of Curlews Nuwemus arquata were seen on at least six occasions by Mrs. R. Barnes and ourselves at a traditional breeding site in a marshy field near Purton, Wiltshire. On n t h May I.W.Y. flushe...
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Dowitcher identification

01 August 1968 Comments Main paper During a long argument over the specific identity of a dowitcher Ldmnodromus sp. that frequented the Hayle estuary, Cornwall, from 30th October 1966 to 22nd April 1967 and was even trapped on one occasion, many observers found themselves confused by the i...
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Letters

01 January 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--An annual report for the County of Suffolk is to be published, beginning with 1950, and I would be grateful if any of your readers who may have records of observations made in Suffolk in this or subsequent years would be good enough to send them to...
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Books Received

01 January 1951 Comments Editorials Flamingo City. By G. K. Yeates. (Country Life, 25/-). Birds and Men. By E M. Nicholson. (Collins, 21/-). The Sarawak Museum Journal (Vol. V, No. 2, September, 1950). ment Printing Office, Kuching, Sarawak ; $6.00 Straits). (Govern-...
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Reviews

01 January 1951 Comments Reviews Fifteenth Annual Report (1948) and Sixteenth Annual Report (1949) of the British Trust for Ornithology. Price 1/6. Obtainable from B.T.O., 91, Banbury Road, Oxford. These two reports give evidence of much useful work carried on under the auspices of the B...
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Notes

01 January 1951 Comments Notes ON March 23rd, 1947, I observed a presumed male Rook (Corvus fmgilegus) attempting coition on the ground with a presumed female of the same species. The rookery was about 50 yards away.ON,April 4th, 1949, at Little Plumstead, Norfolk, two Rooks were pres...
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