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01 March 1963 Comments Letters SIES,--Mr. Glegg's note in your current number (Vol. VII., p. 56) concerning the nest of this species which he found beside one of the reservoirs a t Walthamstow on J u n e 11th, hardly does full justice to the extraordinary wealth of bird-life to be seen...

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01 March 1963 Comments Notes IT is gratifying to see Mr. C. S. Meares's note on th Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) breeding in Shropshire an Norfolk (British Birds, Vol. VI., p. 371), and to find that i has also bred in Surrey (Countryside, Vol. V., p. 387). Ther can be no doubt as...

The Sequence of Plumages of the Common Eider

01 March 1963 Comments Main paper accounts have appeared in the works of naturalists on the subject of the plumage of the male and female Eider (Somateria m. mollissima) and the age at which the sexes arrive at maturity. In nearly all of these there is much guesswork owing to the small se...

Obituary: The Late Philip Lutley Sclater

01 March 1963 Comments Obituaries W E greatly regret to announce the death, on June 27th, 1913, as the result of a carriage accident, of Philip Lutley Sclater, D.Sc, F.R.S., at the age of eightythree years. The loss of so eminent an ornithologist will be deeply felt by all bird-lovers, an...

REPORT ON THE "BRITISH BIRDS" CENSUS OF HERONRIES, 1928

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LETTERS: THE DIVING-HABITS OF THE LONG-TAILED DUCK; FLEDGING-PERIODS OF WOOD-PIGEON AND ROBIN; FULMARS BREEDING IN DURHAM

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01 April 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--The observations conducted b y Messrs. Ingram and Salmon on the dives of the Long-tailed Duck (antea, p . 264) reopen a veryinteresting question, and one which, I think, is still some way from being satisfactorily answered. In estimating the averag...

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01 April 1929 Comments Notes IN previous notes in British Birds on egg-daubing by the Jackdaw {Colceus m. spermologus) I can find no record of first and second layings of the same bird in the same season having been found bedaubed: so the following instance may be of interest. The f...

Report on the "British Birds" Census of Heronries, 1928. Part I

01 April 1929 Comments Main paper want of satisfactory data regarding the numbers of animals in relation to space and time is an obstacle of which biology is becoming acutely aware. It is clear that until accurate statistics are secured on a sufficient scale research must be restricted, i...

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The Sequence of Plumages of the Common Eider

Obituary: The Late Philip Lutley Sclater

REPORT ON THE "BRITISH BIRDS" CENSUS OF HERONRIES, 1928

LETTERS: THE DIVING-HABITS OF THE LONG-TAILED DUCK; FLEDGING-PERIODS OF WOOD-PIGEON AND ROBIN; FULMARS BREEDING IN DURHAM

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Report on the "British Birds" Census of Heronries, 1928. Part I

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