Fair Isle bird observatory

01 February 1950
Comments Main paper Compiled by KENNETH WILLIAMSON (Director). The following notes have been selected from the Fair Isle Bird Observatory " Notes on Species " record-book as much for their importance in amplifying the information contained in The Handbook of British Birds a...
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Reviews

01 February 1950
Comments Reviews Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. Committee for Ornithology Reports for 1947 and 1948. Edited by Ralph Chislett. (Reprinted from The Naturalist, 1948, pp. 51-74, and 1949, 51-75.) T H E S E reports as usual contain much valuable material. Up to four Gannets w...
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Notes

01 February 1950
Comments Notes DURING a visit to Thanet in the autumn of 1947, I was enabled, through the kindness of Mrs. Powell-Cotton, to examine the small collection of locally-taken bird-skins in the above museum. These were made readily available to me by the present Curator, Mr...
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Letter

01 February 1945
Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference t o t h e letter from t h e Hon. G. Charteris (antea, p. 120), I can record three definite instances of Chaffinches having second broods. 1. I n 1938 a pair ringed b y me with coloured rings for identification nested in a holly just ...
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Reviews

01 February 1945
Comments Reviews The Breeding Distribution, History and Population of the North Atlantic Gannet (Sola bassana). By James Fisher and H. G. Vevcrs. Part I.--A History of the G a n n e t s Colonies, and t h e Census in 1939. Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. xii, pp. 173-213, ...
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Notes

01 February 1945
Comments Notes I HAVE recently been particularly interested in the behaviour of Marsh- and Coal-Tits, which together with larger numbers of Blue and Great Tits, have visited the garden here at Llanymynech during about the first three weeks of October, 1944. The garden,...
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