Reviews

01 September 1985
Comments Reviews A Dictionary of Birds. Edited by Bruce Campbell and Elizabeth Lack. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton, 1985. 670 pages; over 500 black-and-white plates, line-drawings and diagrams. £39.00.  The majority of books that one is asked to review one s...
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Short Reviews

01 September 1985
Comments Reviews Birds of Kerala: the birds of Travancore and Cochin. By Salim Ali. (Oxford University Press, India; first published 1953, second edition 1969, reprinted 1984. £15.00) This welcome reprint will be indispensable to anyone visiting southern India (and no...
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Recent reports

01 September 1985
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The dates in this report refer to June unless otherwise stated. An anticyclone gave warm easterly weather for the first few days of the month. From 6th, however, cool nort...
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News and comment

01 September 1985
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Bird films for youth. As part of the International Year of Youth, the first International Ornithological Film Festival will take place in the District of Menigoute...
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