Letters

01 July 1953
Comments Letters SIRS,--At a meeting held in Aberdaron on March 7th, 1953, a committee was formed to establish a permanent observatory on the island of Bardsey. The position of the Island, at the very tip of the Lleyn Peninsula, makes it an ideal site for the study of bir...
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Reviews

01 July 1953
Comments Reviews Yorkshire Birds. By Ralph Chislett. (A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., 1953). 25s. Mr. Chislett lists among his qualifications for this work a professional training as a chartered accountant, and although he notes sadly that the application to bird records of effect...
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Notes

01 July 1953
Comments Notes Birds with abnormal bills.--With reference to previous notes on this subject (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 60, 349-50; vol. xlv, p. 402), we have received several more records of bill deformities and the following are worth quoting :OYSTERCATCHER (Hcetnatopus os...
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