Reviews

01 September 1969 Comments Reviews Handbuch der Vogel Mitteleuropas. Vols 2 and 3. Anseriformes. Edited by K. M. Bauer and U. N. Glutz von Blotzheim. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main. Vol 2 (1968): 535 P a g es > 5 colour plates; 76 text-figures and maps. Vol 5 (1969): 50...
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Notes

01 September 1969 Comments Notes Fish jumping into Heron's mouth On 16th August 1969, at Talybont Reservoir, Breconshire, we saw a Heron Ardea cinerea standing on the edge of a small concrete 'waterfall' about two feet high; it was leaning forward in such a manner that its open bill was ...
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The Hastings Rarities again

01 September 1969 Comments Main paper It was only to be expected that the searching review of the Hastings Rarities in August 1962 (Nelder 1962, Nicholson and Ferguson-Lees 1962) would, in certain circles, cause considerable distress and a desire to rebut, if possible, the arguments which led...
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Recent reports and news

01 March 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writer's judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted in case a report ...
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Request for information

01 March 1958 Comments Editorials The 1957 irruptions of tits and other species.--The organisers report a good response to the earlier appeals (antea, vol. L, pp. 495 and 542) for information about the movements of tits (Parus spp). and other birds in the autumn of 1957. For England and W...
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Letters

01 March 1958 Comments Letters I N F O R M A T I O N W A N T E D ON L A P W I N G C H I C K S S I R S , -- F r o m observations made over a number of years on the growth and development of young Lapwings (Vanellus vanellus), it would appear that early hatching chicks develop more rapid...
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Reviews

01 March 1958 Comments Reviews By N . F . TICEHURST. (Cleaver-Hume, London, 1957). 131 p a g e s ; 32 plates in blackand-white and two-colour line. 35s. T H E LITTLE we know of the past history of birds in Britain is derived from archaelogical research during" prehistoric excavations,...
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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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