Reviews

01 May 1954
Comments Reviews Report on Dorset Birds, 1951. Edited by K. B. Rooke. Now 2S. Report on Dorset Birds, 1952, Edited by K B.. Rooke. 2s. 9d. The Wildfowl and Waders of Poole Harbour. By A. J. Bull. (1953). 2S. 9d. (All reprinted from Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist, and Arch. Soc, v...
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Reviews

01 May 1954
Comments Reviews The Birds of Scotland: Their History, Distribution, and Migration, By Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh & London, 1953). £3. 3s. THIS important contribution to British ornithology has at length appeared in two...
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Notes

01 May 1954
Comments Notes 24th, 1947, Mr. D. H. Brown and I saw at Rye Harbour, Sussex, a Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps griseigena) still in almost complete summer plumage. This bird was seen at very close range and we noted, rather casually at the time, that the whole of the bill wa...
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Letters

01 September 1953
Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Vosges mountains in France during the first World War earthenware pots especially designed for sparrows to nest in were to be seen on the walls of a great many farms and I have no doubt the practice still persists. These served a double purp...
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Reviews

01 September 1953
Comments Reviews Rare and Extinct Birds of Britain. By Ralph Whitlock. (Phcenix House, London, 1953). 21s. I t is open to question whether a satisfactory book can be written on the subject of our rare and extinct birds. To contribute anything original to knowledge in this...
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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 ...
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