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Review

01 June 1933
Comments Reviews Northward Hot--for Birds. By Ralph Chislctt. Illustrated. (Country Life, Ltd.) 15s. net. MR. CHISLETT'S photographs, of which he has given us a very fine and generous selection in this beautiful quarto volume, seem to us perfect. There are altogether eigh...
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Notes

01 June 1933
Comments Notes O N April 8th, 1933, the Blackbird which sings from the apex of our cottage on Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, was displaced by a small finch whose song I have never heard before. It was linnet-like, but much fainter, and I put down the notes " tu-tee, t...
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Alterations to the British List

01 June 1933
Comments Main paper I N J u n e , 1932 (Vol. X X V I . , p. 16), we gave a complete list of the additions and alterations to the British List since the publication of the Practical Handbook. Since then the alterations given below have been agreed upon by the British Ornithol...
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Notes on Coots

01 May 1933
Comments Main paper IN 1932 many more nests of the Coot (Fulica a. ater) were built on Fetcham Pond, Leatherhead, than I had seen in the previous five years in which I have had the pond under observation. In 1930 there were six nests with 15 young; in 1931 ten nests with 12 ...
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Letters

01 May 1933
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n June, 1919, I found an undomed nest of a Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus c. collybita) with three young birds in a stunted hawthorn bush growing on a bankside near Wetheral, Cumberland. I t was a n open nest built of grasses and lined with feath...
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Review

01 May 1933
Comments Reviews Bird? from the Hide. Described and Photographed by Ian M. Thomson . Illustrated. (A. & C. Black.) 12s. 6d. net. M R . THOMSON is well known as a very excellent bird photographer and in this book he has given us of his best. There are sixty-three full page...
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Notes

01 May 1933
Comments Notes As the Jackdaw (Colceusm. spermologus) is a bird not usually subject to variation, some notes on a local variety seen at Douglas may be of interest. These white-winged Jackdaws are best described as having on the outer primary a white spot or " mirror " e...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 May 1933
Comments Main paper No. Place and Date Ringed. Place and Date Recovered. CORMORANT {Phalacrocorax c. carbo). 109436 Badcall Is. (Suth.), 27.6.32, Near Culross (Fife), 10.12.32, young, by E. C. Sharp. by K. Tullis. 109439 Ditto 27.6.32. Near Dalcross (Inverness.), 11.3.33, by...
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Letters

01 April 1933
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t may be worth recording in connexion with t h e correspondence on this subject (antea, p p . 257-315) t o state t h a t in Wild Exmoor through the Year I reported a Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dryobates m. anglicus) drinking and bathing a t ...
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Notes

01 April 1933
Comments Notes ONE always associates the Raven (Corvus corax) with extreme intelligence, but not so a pair (or its yearly successors, for many are destroyed round here by gamekeepers, etc.) that breed in a secluded Denbighshire gorge, not many miles away from my home. ...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 April 1933
Comments Main paper --Birds re-trapped and released again are omitted here and will be published in a separate list. No. J08365 Place and Date Ri Place and Date Recovered. RAVEN (Corvus c. corax). Dumfriesshire, 15.4.32, Near West Linton (Peebles), young, by T. K. Craven. 17...
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Birds of Inner London

01 March 1933
Comments Main paper THE following may be added to the list published in this magazine in 1929 (Vol. XXII., pp. 222-244) and the subsequent additions (Vol. XXIII., p. 266, and Vol. XXIV., P- 323)SCANDINAVIAN LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL {Larus f,fuscus).--- Mr. L. Parmenter infor...
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Letters

01 March 1933
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I am making an investigation into t h e extent t o which butterflies in t h e perfect or imaginal state are preyed upon in t h e British Isles by birds, and should be grateful for any first-hand observations, giving, where possible, t h e spe...
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Review

01 March 1933
Comments Reviews Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna. Von Dr. Ernst Hartert. Erg&nzungsband in Gemeinschaft mil Dr. Friedrich Steinbacher bearbeitet. Heft. I. (Berlin : Friedlander & Sohn.) T H I S is the first part of a supplement, which will bring up to date from 1922 Dr. Ha...
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Notes

01 March 1933
Comments Notes IN an article on the Marsh- and Willow-Tits (antea, Vol. XXIV., p. 319), Mr. J. Walpole Bond stated that he had never seen or heard of a nest of a Marsh-Tit (Parus palustris dresseri) in masonry. It may, therefore, be of interest to record that I found s...
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Letters

01 February 1933
Comments Letters SIRS,---1 am in possession of letters relating to the birds of the following districts and if application is made to me a t the address below I am prepared to post them to those who may be sufficiently interested. Bedfordshire, Berks., Bucks., Cornwall, C...
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Reviews

01 February 1933
Comments Reviews A History of the Birds of Suffolk. By Claud B. Ticehurst, (Gurney & Jackson). Illustrated. 24s. net. As might be expected, this book, coming from the pen of so accomplished an ornithologist as Dr. C. B. Ticehurst, will rank among the very best of county a...
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Notes

01 February 1933
Comments Notes ON May ist, 1932, at Leathcrcote Point, St. Margarets-atCliffe, 1 came across a bird which 1 identified as an Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris). It remained for some considerable time in the same area around some small low-lying bushes on the cliff edg...
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Letter

01 January 1933
Comments Letters SIRS,--The Cambridge Bird Club is endeavouring to collect all material relating to birds in Cambridgeshire, and it is hoped eventually to produce a county list. I should be extremely grateful if observers who can give me any information, on both common an...
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Reviews

01 January 1933
Comments Reviews The Trail that is always New. By Willoughby P. Lowe. (Gurncy & Jackson). Illustrated. i6s. net. MR. WILLOUGHBY LOWE is a born naturalist and has been a collector since early youth. He has been fortunate in being able to follow his bent, and has for many y...
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Notes

01 January 1933
Comments Notes {Pastor roseus).--On September loth, 1932, a Rose-coloured Starling was seen by Mr. J. H. Stubbs in a grass field close to the village of North Cotes with a small flock of Starlings. He saw it at a very short distance and his description was so good that...
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