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THE J/. 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



wild bird 

 Investigation Society 



Edited by 

 WALTER E. COLLINGE, D.Sc . F.L.S , M.B.O U. 



Vol. 1. 



FEBRUARY, 1921. 



No. 3. 



CONTENTS. 



ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS: 



A Few Notes on the Courting Antics of 

 some Britisli Birds. 



By Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. 49 



Birds of the Wye Valley. 



By Wm C. Blake. 



The Citizen and Wild Birds. 



By Walter E. Collinge. D Sc , F.L.S, 



EDITORIAL 



NOTES and NEWS 



LOCAL BRANCHES: 



St. Andrews 



Dunfermline ... 



Yoker 



51 



54 



55 



57 



59 

 59 



REVIEWS: 



Territory in Bird Life (H. E. Howard) . 60 



Birds of La Plata (W. H Hudson) 60 



Diseases of Domesticated Birds (Ward 



and Gallagher) 60 



Birds and Man (W. H. Hudson, . 61 



A Geographical Bibliography of British 

 Ornithology (Mullens, Kirke Swann, 

 and Jourdain) 62 



The Heron of Castle Creek (A. W. Reesi 63 



The Birds of the British Isles (T. A. 



Coward 1 63 



Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich 



Naturalists Society 64 



Synoptical List of the Accipitres (H. Kirke 



Swann) 64 



CURRENT LITERATURE 64 



59 NOTICES TO MEMBERS 



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