Reviews

01 September 1961
Comments Reviews The Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh. By H . Albert Hochbaum. Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, U.S.A., 1959 (second edition). 207 pages; 18 photographs. $4.50. Originally published towards the end of the 1939-45 war, this was the first of a series of authorita...
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Notes

01 September 1961
Comments Notes Manx Shearwater d i g g i n g by daylight.--At about 2.30 p.m. on 15th May 1961, I was walking in bright sunlight on a sloping cliff on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, when I heard a Manx Shearwater (Procellaria puffinus) calling from its burrow. Kneeling down w...
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