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Letters

01 August 1977 Comments Letters Melanistic Grey Heron Bryan L. Sage (in litt.) has confirmed that, when making his recent comment (Brit. Birds 70: 76), he had overlooked my record of a melanistic Grey Heron Ardea cinerea at Little Tring Reservoir, Tring, Hertfordshire, on 29th S...

Letters

01 March 1958 Comments Letters I N F O R M A T I O N W A N T E D ON L A P W I N G C H I C K S S I R S , -- F r o m observations made over a number of years on the growth and development of young Lapwings (Vanellus vanellus), it would appear that early hatching chicks develop more rapid...

Reviews

01 November 1956 Comments Reviews By DAVID LACK (Methuen, London, 1956). 239 p a g e s ; 10 half-tone plates; 24 text illustrations. 21s. N O T the least striking feature of that astonishing building, the University Museum of Science at Oxford, is the tower; for behind the ventilator sha...

Letters

01 April 1955 Comments Letters THE ABERDEENSHIRE RECORD OF A WHITE-THROATED SPARROW 5ms,--Commenting - on the four British-taken examples of the White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) in their excellent and timely paper "American land-birds in western E u r o p e " (antea, pp....

Notes

01 September 1953 Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...

Notes

01 July 1953 Comments Notes Birds with abnormal bills.--With reference to previous notes on this subject (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 60, 349-50; vol. xlv, p. 402), we have received several more records of bill deformities and the following are worth quoting :OYSTERCATCHER (Hcetnatopus os...