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Siberian Thrush on the Isle of May: A New British Bird

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper O N 2nd October 1954 an adult male Siberian Thrush (Turdus sibiricus) was trapped on the Isle of May. It had been glimpsed, but not positively identified, shortly before dusk on the previous day and was still present on the island when we left on the 4th....

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...

Notes

01 January 1955 Comments Notes at a water-hole near Nanyuki, Kenya, B.E.A., around 1900 hours (local time) on 29th January, 1953, I observed an interesting display between two W o o d Sandpipers (Tringa glareola). The actual display was not so remarkable as the fact that both participa...

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 Very little has been published on the subject and no doubt a good many unpublished records, especially those made on voyages, are in existen...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...

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Siberian Thrush on the Isle of May: A New British Bird

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