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01 February 1956 Comments Letters S I R S , -- A census of breeding Great Black-backed Gulls (Larus marinns) in England and W a l e s in 1956 has been approved as an investigation of the British Trust for Ornithology. As organise* I shall be glad of offers of help from those who are willi...

Reviews

01 February 1956 Comments Reviews By SETON GORDON, C.B.E. (Collins " New N a t u r a l i s t , " London, 1955). 246 pages, 17 photographs. 16s. A MONOGRAPH on the Golden Eagle in Scotland is long overdue and who could have produced a better one than Seton Gordon? For half a century the a...

Notes

01 February 1956 Comments Notes Displacement coition in the Mallard.--On ioth May, 1951, a t Clayton-le-dale, near Blackburn, Lancashire, I was engaged in watching the behaviour of a pair of Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) tending fifteen young, which were newly hatched. T h e young fed fo...

Birds of a Trans-Atlantic Voyage in Late Spring 1954

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory) ALTHOUGH there are many papers concerning- the birds observed during- transects of the North Atlantic there is still room for advancement of our knowledge of seasonal distribution over this vast expanse of ocean. The present p...

Delayed Emigration of Certain Birds in Autumn 1954

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper SEVERAL notes received by the Editors of British Birds in the winter of 1954-55 confirmed the impression of some individual observers that the departure of migratory birds, both summervisitors and passage-migrants, had been unusually delayed in the autumn...

The Migrations of British Chats

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper T H E purpose of this paper is to analyse the recovery records of birds of species of " c h a t s " ringed in the British Isles under the scheme now managed by the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and earlier by the late H . F ....

Records of Wood Sandpipers in Britain in the Autumn of 1952

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the autumn of 1952, as noted previously (antea, vol. xlv, p. 432), a considerable passage of W o o d Sandpipers (Tringa glareola) was observed in many parts of Great Britain, particularly in the south-east. There is some evidence that the numbers o...

Requests for Information

01 June 1952 Comments Editorials 224 REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION. (i) A number of readers have already reported unusually early arrivals of summer migrants in 1952, especially in March. As a general rule we have regarded records of this sort as being the province of local reports, but such ...

Notes

01 June 1952 Comments Notes 13th, 1951, Campbell Ballantyne told G. E. Wooldridge of two warblers that he had been watching that morning. Although obviously warblers their identity was puzzling. He gave a fairly full description of the birds seen, the most striking feature being, "v...

Mid-season movements of Swifts in Sussex

01 June 1952 Comments Main paper IN his article, " T h e Movements of Swifts in S u m m e r " (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 146-152), H. G. Hurrell states that " t h e r e is evidence which suggests the possibility of an influx from the Continent about the end of J u n e " . My own observations...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

Birds of a Trans-Atlantic Voyage in Late Spring 1954

Delayed Emigration of Certain Birds in Autumn 1954

The Migrations of British Chats

Records of Wood Sandpipers in Britain in the Autumn of 1952

Requests for Information

Notes

Mid-season movements of Swifts in Sussex

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