News and comment

01 February 1966
Comments News and comment Ornithological news from the U.S.S.R.--The 4th All-Union Ornithological Conference, held in the beautiful central Asian city of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R., from 1st to 7th September 1965, was attended by 263 delegates, three of whom came from western ...
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Letters

01 February 1966
Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...
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Reviews

01 February 1966
Comments Reviews Fait Isle and its Birds. By Kenneth Williamson. With 'A List of the Birds of Fair Isle' by Peter Davis. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1965. xvi+311 pages; 27 photographs (16 plates); 17 text-figures and maps. 30s. Over 60 years ago Dr. William Eagl...
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Notes

01 February 1966
Comments Notes Swifts roosting o n poles.---At dusk on 4th September 1965, near the field station on Walney Island, Lancashire, J. Wilson, B. Sutton and I saw a Swift Apus apus repeatedly fly at a telegraph pole and then even tually land on it. It apparently settled the...
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Letters

01 January 1938
Comments Letters SIRS,---Miss Hibbert-Ware (Little Owl Inquiry, antea, pp. 215-216) prefaces her remarks on Little Owls 011 Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, with the w o r d s : " T h e following incident seems, however, t o contradict these conclusions [that t h e Little ...
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Reviews

01 January 1938
Comments Reviews Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow. Vol. I. A Population Study of the Song Sparrow. By Margaret M. Nice. Transactions of the Linnean Society of New York, IV : April 1937. 2 47PP- 3 plates, 18 charts, 33 tables. (American Museum of Natural His...
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