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Some notes on the Crested Lark

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper the summer of 1940 until May 1945 we were in various prison camps scattered over Germany and Poland. For most of the time two of us were together. In 1946 one of us was for a short time again in Germany. Crested Larks (Galerida c. cristata) were seen wher...

Letters

01 June 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Royal Naval Bird-Watching Society has now been in existence for just over a year. I t has some t w o hundred and sixty members drawn from the ranks of t h e Royal Navy, Royal Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Navies. These observers range fr...

Notes

01 June 1948 Comments Notes As a member of the local fire brigade I was able to make some close observations on the behaviour of birds at a big oil-tank fire at Pembroke Dock in August and September, 1940. The fire blazed for many days and gave rise to intense heat and an immense c...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XIV. The Spotted Redshank

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper Photographed by OLOF SWANBERG AND ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN. (Plates 17-21). THE present photographs of the Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythrofus) are the first of a long series of remarkable photographs of Scandinavian breeding birds--most of them species occurr...

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper Ringed. Recovered. Rossitten, East Prussia, Newport Pagnell released Konigsberg 10.5.39 (Bucks.) 6.1.40 D51168 Rossitten 14.4.34 Sarratt (Herts.) 8.3.42 SCANDINAVIAN JACKDAW (Corvus m. monedula). Ringed. Recovered. U3240 Alvsborg, Sweden, young 5.6.39 Rad...

Report on the Inland passage of Arctic and Common Tern in the Spring of 1947

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper IN the spring of 1947 there occurred an exceptional inland passage of Arctic (Sterna macrura) and Common Terns (S. h. hirundo) in England and Wales, concerning which a preliminary notice was published in June in British Birds (antea, Vol. xl, p. 189). The...

Reviews

01 November 1947 Comments Reviews British Game. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. (The New Naturalist series, Collins, London, 1946). Price 16s. This is the first of the New Naturalist series to be concerned primarily with birds. I t is not exclusively so concerned because mammals are also inclu...

Notes

01 November 1947 Comments Notes ON a fine morning in April, 1946, a number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula), Song-Thrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) and Starlings (Siurnus v. vulgaris) were watched while feeding on a large lawn of King's College, Cambridge. The Starlings spent most of the...

The Colour-Phases of the Fulmar

01 November 1947 Comments Main paper THE Handbook (Vol-, iv, p. 79) contains a statement of mine on the distribution of the colour phases of the Fulmar (Fulmarus g. glatialis) which is erroneous. It runs ;--"proportions of dark birds are-- Brit. Is. up to 2 per cent., except Shetland, where...

Studies of some species Rarely Photographed. XI. The Rufous, Sardinian and Olivaceous Warblers

01 November 1947 Comments Main paper (Plates 32-39)THE unique photographs of these three warblers were taken at Habbaniya on the Euphrates in Iraq during the war by Mr. A. Stubbs, who has contributed some useful notes on all three species as observed in that locality. All three are on the Br...

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Some notes on the Crested Lark

Letters

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XIV. The Spotted Redshank

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

Report on the Inland passage of Arctic and Common Tern in the Spring of 1947

Reviews

Notes

The Colour-Phases of the Fulmar

Studies of some species Rarely Photographed. XI. The Rufous, Sardinian and Olivaceous Warblers

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