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01 February 1967 Comments News and comment T h e National Cage Birds Show.--As usual, the National Cage Birds Show at London's Olympia from 8th to ioth December 1966 was dominated by canaries and budgerigars, and there seemed to be even fewer foreign species of special interest to the British fiel...

Reviews

01 February 1967 Comments Reviews In Search of Birds. By Collingwood Ingram. Witherby, London, 1966. 286 pages. 30s. This is a colourful patchwork quilt of sixty years' and a very good thirty shillings' worth of ornithological observations, experiences and ruminations, which no one with e...

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01 February 1967 Comments Notes Fulmars sitting in trees.--Fulmars Fulmarus glaciatis in east Sutherland have been noted for their versatility ever since Frank Darling and Averil Morley recorded that they -were frequenting the roof of Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, in 1947 {Brit. Birds, 40: ...

Numbers of Dartford Warblers in England during 1962-66

01 February 1967 Comments Main paper (Tubbs 1963) it was shown that the Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata is subject to periodic population 'crashes' which are correlated with severe winters and normally follow a build-up in numbers over several years. Such a build-up was demonstrated for the N...

Obituary: Denzil Dean Harber (1909-1966)

01 February 1967 Comments Obituaries H A R B E R died on 31st August 1966 at the Westminster Hospital, London, after a major operation which had at first seemed successful. He was 5 7. Latterly he was known to readers oiBritishBirds chiefly as the Honorary Secretary of the Rarities Committe...

Studies of less familiar birds:142. Little Bustard

01 February 1967 Comments Main paper T H E S E S T U D I E S of a female Little Bustard Otis tetrax at the nest provide an interesting comparison with those of the female Great Bustard O. tarda by the same two photographers (Brit. Birds, 59: 22-27, frontispiece and plates 1-8). The Little Bu...

Recoveries in Great Britain and Ireland of birds ringed abroad

01 February 1967 Comments Main paper T H E YEAR 1965 produced a grand total of 721 recoveries in the British Isles of foreign-ringed birds. Five of the 71 species involved--Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus, Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis, Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, Bearded Tit Panu...

Letters

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...

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Numbers of Dartford Warblers in England during 1962-66

Obituary: Denzil Dean Harber (1909-1966)

Studies of less familiar birds:142. Little Bustard

Recoveries in Great Britain and Ireland of birds ringed abroad

Letters

Reviews

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