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THE JOURNAL OF
ANIMAL ECOLOGY
VOLUME 6
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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OF
ANIMAL ECOLOGY
EDITED FOR THE
BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY by
CHARLES ELTON and
A. D. MIDDLETON
VOLUME 6
1937
WITH ELEVEN PLATES, AND NUMEROUS FIGURES IN THE TEXT
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CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1937
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CONTENTS ORIGINAL PAPERS
PAGE
Baden-Powell, D. F. W. On the Holocene marine fauna from the imple- mentiferous deposits of Island Magee, County Antrim . . . . 86
Baden-Powell, D. F. W. On a marine Holocene fauna in North-western Scotland . . . . . . . . . . 273
Baweja, K. D. The calculation of soil population figures . . . . 366
Best, Alan T. See Vevers, H. G. . . . . . . . . 362
Boyd Watt, Hugh. On the wild goat in Scotland. With supplement: Habits of wild goats in Scotland, by F. FRASER DARLING . . . . . 15
Carey, E. and Diver, C. Territory in the yellow field ant (Acanthomyops fiavus) .. ... . 193
Chitty, Dennis. A ringing technique for small mammals . . . 36
Chitty, Dennis and Elton, Charles. Canadian Arctic wildlife enquiry, 1935-36 . . . . . . 368
Chitty, Helen. See Middleton, A. D. . . . . . . 322
Colman, J. S. The present state of the Newfoundland seal fishery . . 145
Darling, F. Frazer. See Boyd Watt, H . . . . . . 15
Diver, C. See Carey, E. . . . . . . . . . . 193
Duffield, J. E. Notes on some animal communities of Norwegian Lapland: an account of the dung and carrion communities and of those insects found in human dwellings . . . . . . . . 160
Elton, Charles. See Chitty, Dennis . . . . . . . 368
Fisher, James. See Vevers, H. G.. . . . . . . . 362
Ford, John. Special Review. Research on populations of Tribolium confusum and its bearing on ecological theory: a summary . . . . 1
Ford, John. Fluctuations in natural populations of Collembola and Acarina 98
Hartley, C. H. See Vevers, H. G. . . . . . . . . 362
Hefley, Harold M. The relations of some native insects to introduced food plants . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Kalabuchov, N. J. Some physiological adaptations of the mountain and plain forms of the wood-mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) and of other species of mouse-like rodents . . . . . . . . . . 254
Keay, Gladys. The ecology of the harvest mite (Trombicula autumnalis) in the British Isles . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Lack, David and Venables, L. S. V. The heathland birds of South Haven Peninsula, Studland Heath, Dorset . . . . . . . . 62
Laing, J. Host-finding by insect-parasites. 1. Observations on the finding of hosts by Alysia manducator, Mormoniella vitripenni8 and Trichogramma evanescens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Lever, R. J. A. W. A contribution to the ecology of a grassland community on Guadalcanal Island, British Solomon Islands Protectorate . . . 291
Lysaght, Averil M. An ecological study of a thrips (Antinothrips rufus) and its nematode parasite (Anguillulina aptini) . . . . . 169
Middleton, A. D. The population of partridges (Perdix perdix) in Great Britain during 1936 . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Middleton, A. D. and Chitty, Helen. The food of adult partridges, Perdix perdix and Alectoris rufa, in Great Britain . . . . . . 322
Middleton, A. D. See Parsons, B. T. . . . . . . . 286
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Morrison-Scott, T. C. S. A note on the distribution of the two shrews found in Jersey . . . . . . . . 284
Park, Orlando. Studies in nocturnal ecology. Further analysis of activity in the beetle, Passalus cornutus, and description of audio-frequency recording apparatus . . . . . . . . . . 239
Parsons, B. T. and Middleton, A. D. The distribution of the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in Great Britain in 1937 286
Pickles, Walter. Populations, territories and biomasses of ants at Thornhill, Yorkshire, in 1936 . . . . 54
Pyefinch, K. A. The fresh and brackish water of Bardsey Island (North Wales): a chemical and faunistic survey . . . 115
Solomon, M. E. Behaviour of the red-]egged earth mite, Halotydeus destructor, in relation to environmental conditions . . 340
Thompson, Gordon B. A census of the ectoparasites of some Ceylon bats . 337
Venables, L. S. V. Bird distribution on Surrey Greensand heaths: the avifaunal-botanical correlation . . 73
Venables, L. S. V. See Lack, David . . . . . 62
Vevers, H-. G., Fisher, James, Hartley, C. H. and Best, Alan T. The 1937 census of gannets on Ailsa Craig; with notes on their diurnal activity 362
Warwick, Tom. The occurrence of disease among muskrats (Fiber zibethicus) in Great Britain during 1934 . . . . . . . . 112
NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS ON ANIMAL ECOLOGY 204, 396
REVIEWS Bracher, R. Ecology in town and classroom. (Charles Elton) . . . 393
Burr, M. British grasshoppers and their allies. (Charles Elton) . . 200
Brutll, H. Das Leben deutscher Greifvogel: die Umwelt der Raubvogel unter besonderen Beriicksichtigung des Habichts, Bussards, und Wanderfalken. (Francis Evans) . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Carter, H. Gilbert. British trees and shrubs, including those commonly planted: a systematic introduction to our conifers and woody dicotyledons. (Charles Elton) . . 202
Chard, J. S. R. British aniiAal tracks. (D. H. Chitty) . . . . 201
Chrystal, R. N. Insects of the British woodlands. (Charles Elton) . . 390
Day, W. R. and Peace, T. R. Spring frosts. (Charles Elton) . . 391
Errington, P. L. and Hamerstromn, F. N. Jr. The northern bob-white's winter territory. (A. D. Middleton) . . . . . 201
Ford, E. The Nation's sea-fish supply. Being the Buckland Lectures for 1936. (Charles Elton) . . . . . . . 395
Forrest, J. E., Waterston, A. R. and Watson, E. V. The natural history of Barra, Outer Hebrides. The results of a scientific expedition organised by the Biological Society of the University of Edinburgh, 1-14 July 1935. (Charles Elton) . . . . . . . . . 203
Frenzel, G. Untersuchungen uber die Tierwelt des Wiesenbodens. (John Ford) 197
Journal of Ecology. Vol. 25, Nos. 1 and 2. (A. G. Tansley) . . . 195, 386
Journal of Wildlife Management. Vol. 1, Nos. 1-2. (Charles Elton) . 393 Grindley, G. C. The intelligence of animals. (Charles Elton) . . . 393
Gunther, E. R. A report on oceanographical investigations in the Peru coastal current. (Charles Elton) . . . . . . . . 195
Hackett, L. W. Malaria in Europe: an ecological study. (A. E. Boycott) . 392
Hardy, A. C. and Gunther, E. R. The plankton of the South Georgia whaling grounds and adjacent waters, 1926-27. (Charles Elton) . . 196
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Contents vii Hewatt, W. G. Ecological studies on selected marine intertidal communities of
Monterey Bay, California. (D. M. Steven) . . . . . 387
Lapage, G. Nematodes parasitic in animals. (Charles Elton) . . . 394
Madsen, H. Investigations on the shore fauna of East Greenland, with a survey of the shores of other Arctic regions. (D. M. Steven) . . . . 387
Massee, A. M. The pests of fruits and hops. (Charles Elton) . . . 390
Murphy, R. C. Oceanic birds of South America. (Charles Elton) . . 195
Newbigin, M. I. Plant and animal geography. (Charles Elton) . . . 203
Orton, J. H. Oyster biology and oyster-culture. Being the Buckland Lectures for 1936. (Charles Elton) . . . . . . . . . . 394
St Kilda Papers 1931. (Charles Elton) . . . . . . . 392
Sandars, E. A beast book for the pocket: the vertebrates of Britain, wild and domestic, other than birds and fishes. (Charles Elton) . . . 202
Stevenson-Hamilton, J. South African Eden. (Dennis Chitty) . . 389
Swynnerton, C. F. M. The tsetse flies of East Africa. A first studv of their ecology, with a view to their control. (J. Richard Carpenter) . . 198
Tattersall, W. M. Glamorgan County History. Vol. 1. Natural History. (A. E. Boycott) . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Thomson, A. Landsborough. Bird migration: a short account. (Charles Elton). . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Wildlife restoration and conservation. Proceedings of the North American Wild- life Conference. (Dennis Chitty). . . . . . . . . 388
BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Notices and list of members . . . . . . . . . 222
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