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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...

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...

Notes

01 January 1955 Comments Notes at a water-hole near Nanyuki, Kenya, B.E.A., around 1900 hours (local time) on 29th January, 1953, I observed an interesting display between two W o o d Sandpipers (Tringa glareola). The actual display was not so remarkable as the fact that both participa...

Reviews

01 October 1953 Comments Reviews Birds of the Gauntlet. By H. von Michaelis. (Hutchinson, London, 1952). 84s. The author is a deservedly successful artist and writer, portraying in this book birds which he has known at close quarters. All, except a European Kestrel, are South African spe...

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