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01 June 1962 Comments Notes Red-legged Partridge paddling in the sea.--On 24th March 1962, at Hunstanton, Norfolk, I saw a Red-legged Partridge {Alectoris rufa) standing in the shallow waves of the incoming tide about 250 yards below high water mark. It was a warm, dry afternoon and...

Notes

01 May 1956 Comments Notes amount of time was spent in 1955, and to a lesser extent in 1954, in an attempt to plot the breeding distribution of Red-backed Shrikes (Lanius collurio) in parts of the New Forest, Hampshire. It is frequently cited in the literature that this bird is bot...

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...

Obituary: Francis Linley Blathwavt (1875-1953), Norman Joy (1874-1953).

01 September 1954 Comments Obituaries BLATHWAYT, who died in his 78th year a t Dyrham, Gloucestershire, on June 30th, 1953, w a s a country parson of sterling qualities and a distinguished English naturalist, as close as possible to t h e Gilbert W h i t e tradition in a world vastly differe...

Balearic Shearwaters off the Dorset Coast in 1953

01 September 1954 Comments Main paper O N August 20th, 1953, the Rev. G. W . H . Moule saw two small shearwaters flying separately ca. S.S.E. low over the sea close in under the W e s t Cliff, Portland Bill, Dorset. Their upper-parts appeared " a rich dark b r o w n " in colour, under-parts n...

Letters

01 June 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--I am grateful to Mr. Ivan M. Goodbody for his comments (antea, p. 32) on my paper on the nocturnal migration of thrushes (antea, vol. xlvi, pp. 37°-374)' It is indeed possible that the coasting movement at Dun Laoghaire was unnatural. With the com...

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...

Letters

01 March 1952 Comments Letters SIRS,--We are hoping to collate information about visible migration over, and on the shores of, the Mediterranean. Very little has been published on the subject and no doubt a good many unpublished records, especially those made on voyages, are in existen...

Reviews

01 March 1952 Comments Reviews British Bird Boohs : An Index to British Ornithologv, A.D. 1481 to J.I). 1948. By Raymond Irwin (London, Grafton & Co., 1951. 63/-). The title of this book gives a very inadequate idea of its contents since it indexes and classifies, not only books, b u t...