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01 November 1956 Comments Letters T H E R E A C T I O N S O F MAN A N D B I R D T O A S C O R P I O N S I R S , -- I n his letter on " T h e effects of model scorpion and lizard on a bird t a b l e " (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 556-557), Col. R. Meinertzhagen suggested that the fear-reaction...

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...

Notes

01 November 1956 Comments Notes of Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius), each containing a clutch of four e g g s , were found at a gravel-pit in the Trent Valley in 1956; the first nest was discovered by A. Teather on 24th June, the second was confirmed by W . Priestley on 2nd July...

British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

01 November 1956 Comments Main paper [This list continues from that published in 1952 (anted, vol. xlv, pp. 458-465), but is in the revised form now internationally adopted. There are a number of records of particular interest. The Herons include a Swedish bird 15J years old, recovered in Ir...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXV. Crane

01 November 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 57-64) THOUGH bearing a certain resemblance t o herons, storks and other long-legged marsh birds, cranes a r e very different creatures in a number of ways and normally are easily separated: on the ground, they a r e given a rather different silho...

Feather-Eating and Pellet-Formation in the Great Crested Grebe

01 November 1956 Comments Main paper IN a recent account (Simmons, 1955) of an eight-year study on the life-history of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus), the habit of eating feathers was briefly reviewed in the light of new anatomical information collected by Hanzak (1952) in Czec...

Autumn Migration on the Kintyre Peninsula

01 November 1956 Comments Main paper T H E Kintyre peninsula forms a tongue of land in western Argyll, Scotland, seldom more than ten miles across and extending for some fifty miles southward from Lochgilphead and the Crinan canal. Fig. i shows that its geographical relations are particularl...

Notes

01 June 1939 Comments Notes THE recent note about Blackbirds (Turius m. merula) feeding on small fish (antea, Vol. XXXII, p. 397) recalls to me that six or seven years ago I watched a pair take repeatedly small tadpoles from a shallow bay of the Little Exe, above Dulverton. Both bir...

Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...

Notes on the Lapwing and Curlew Breeding Population of a Cumberland Farm

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper 1937 and 1938 a census was undertaken of' the Lapwings (Vaneihts vanellus) and Curlews (Numenius a. atquata) breeding on an area of farm-land in Cumberland extending to 650 acres or approximately one square mile. This area is about three hundred feet abov...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXV. Crane

Feather-Eating and Pellet-Formation in the Great Crested Grebe

Autumn Migration on the Kintyre Peninsula

Notes

Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

Notes on the Lapwing and Curlew Breeding Population of a Cumberland Farm

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