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01 June 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgement alone, from sources generallyfound to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Notes

01 June 1960 Comments Notes Piracy by GadwalL--On 30th December 1959, near Cley, Norfolk, we watched four Gadwall (Anas strepera) worrying a drake Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina), apparently with the aim of robbing it of its food. They followed it very closely and whenever it div...

Some notes on the Rufous Warbler

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper T H I S P A P E R is based primarily on observations made from May to October 1958 at Khanaqin in eastern Iraq, a border town on the banks of the Alwand River in the foothills of the Jebel Hamrin Mountains, about 90 miles north-east of Baghdad. When I arr...

The distribution and numbers of Kittiwakes and Guillemots at St. Kilda

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper T H E R E A R E several reasons why no attempt has previously been made to describe in detail the distribution and numbers of the Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) and the Guillemot (Uria aalge) at St. Kilda. The colonies are extremely difficult of access, bei...

Juvenile and winter plumages of the Marsh terns

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper Migration Research Officer, B.T.O. (Plate 36) I D E N T I F I C A T I O N of the three British marsh terns (Chlidonias spp.) outside the breeding season has long constituted a problem for the bird-watcher. There is a cautionary note in The Handbook of Bri...

Lesser Short-toed Larks in Cos. Kerry, Wexford and Mayo : a bird new to Britain and Ireland

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper A H I G H L Y I N T E R E S T I N G a n d fully a c c e p t e d a d d i t i o n t o t h e list of t h e b i r d s of Britain a n d I r e l a n d t h a t has n o t yet received full n o t i c e in this j o u r n a l is t h e Lesser S h o r t - t o e d L a ...

Letter

01 October 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,--In connexion with t h e discussion of this subject (antea, pp. 248-50) it is perhaps worth mentioning t h a t in September, 1911, I watched quantities of Great Shearwaters in t h e Bay of Biscay on a voyage to Bordeaux on the 6th, and on the return...

Reviews

01 October 1939 Comments Reviews South-Eastern Bird Report, 1938. Edited by Ralph Whitlock. (R, Whitlock, Pitton, Salisbury.) 3s, 6d. THIS Report is now published under the auspices of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies and a committee of management under the chairmanship of...

Notes

01 October 1939 Comments Notes FOR some years a pair of Grey Wagtails (Motacilla c. cinerea) have nested in and round a house in Ireland choosing as sites the window ledges of upstairs windows or the thick stems of a Virginian creeper, the nest being either built along a branch or in ...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 October 1939 Comments Main paper Hon. Sec. Bird-Ringing Committee, British Trust for Ornithology. OWING to the increasing number of recoveries, t h e Committee has decided to omit from the published lists, all those within ten miles of the place of ringing, in t h e case of those specie...

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Recent reports and news

Notes

Some notes on the Rufous Warbler

The distribution and numbers of Kittiwakes and Guillemots at St. Kilda

Juvenile and winter plumages of the Marsh terns

Lesser Short-toed Larks in Cos. Kerry, Wexford and Mayo : a bird new to Britain and Ireland

Letter

Reviews

Notes

Recovery of Marked Birds

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