Notes

01 March 1958 Comments Notes Glossy Ibis in D o r s e t -- O n 3rd December 1956, an adult male Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) was shot in the water meadows of the River F r o m e a t Stratton, near Dorchester, Dorset, by C. J. R. Pope. T h e bird w a s examined in the flesh by R...
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01 July 1953 Comments Notes Birds with abnormal bills.--With reference to previous notes on this subject (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 60, 349-50; vol. xlv, p. 402), we have received several more records of bill deformities and the following are worth quoting :OYSTERCATCHER (Hcetnatopus os...
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Notes

01 June 1953 Comments Notes White-billed Diver in Yorkshire.--A White-billed Diver (Colymbus adamsii) was picked up in an exhausted condition near the mouth of Hedon Haven, Paull, E. Yorkshire, On February 18th, 1953. It was found by Messrs. Bunting- and Stathers of Paull and died ...
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01 March 1938 Comments Notes I HAVE paid particular attention to the singing of Crossbills (Loxia c. curvirostra) for some years, on and off, and I find that the song can be divided into four main varieties. In attempting to describe these songs below, I use the two sound descriptio...
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Letters

01 March 1936 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I was very interested in Mr. H . G. Alexander's letter on t h e movements of sea birds a t Dungeness (antea, pp. 298-9), because I watched a considerable movement of divers there on January 25th, 1936. I first reached t h e coast a t Camber, ...
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Notes

01 February 1936 Comments Notes ON January 17th, 1936, the Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and others launched a Viscount Grey Memorial Appeal, one of whose objects is to develop " the existing scheme of research main...
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