Recent reports and News

01 March 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Letters

01 March 1959 Comments Letters "SUB-SONG" AND "SECONDARY SONG" SIRS,---With regard to the paper by Miss P. M. Piicher and myself on "The nature of sub-song" (antea, vol. li, pp. 509-514), I very much regret to find that we were incorrect in stating that the term "sub-song" was used by ...
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Reviews

01 March 1959 Comments Reviews By JAMES C. GREENWAY, Jnr. Illustrated by D. M. REID-HENRY. (Special Publication No. 13, American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, New York, 1958). 518 pages; a coloured frontispiece and 86 ink drawings; maps and diagrams. THIS IS A DISP...
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Notes

01 March 1959 Comments Notes Display of Little Grebe.--A display by a Little Grebe (Padiceps ruficolUs) near Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorkshire, on 4th May 1957, seems to have been a form of penguin-dance (antea, vol. L, pp. 269-270) and does not appear to' be covered by the account in The ...
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Letter

01 February 1943 Comments Letters SIRS,--As the Statement in The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. III, p. 109) that the Osprey (Pandion h. hali/ztus) last bred at Loch Arkaig in 1902 is incorrect this should be corrected. A pair nested regularly ever since I can remember up to 1908 and the...
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Notes

01 February 1943 Comments Notes IN February, 1942, seventy-five nesting boxes were put up inone of the oak woods of the Forest of Dean, with the object of encouraging the breeding of insectivorous birds (tits, in particular) and thus alleviating, if possible, the recurrent outbreaks of...
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