Notes

01 May 1943
Comments Notes 1942 I had excellent opportunities of observing the birds which frequent the southern shores of Ayr Bay, between the mouth of the river Doon and the Heads of Ayr. As a result I have been able to add three new birds to the Ayrshire list, and I include one...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 May 1943
Comments Main paper Longridge (Lancs), 21.3.42. Hartshorne (Derby) 25.4.42. OkL Buckenham (Norfolk), 5-M*Meare (Som), 25.1.42. Oskarstrom (Hailand), Sweden, 28.3.42. Ely (Cambs), 13.11.42. St. Biazey (Comwall), i r . 1.42. Farnborough (Hants), 23.3.42. Nethera von (Wilts) Ro...
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Letter

01 December 1940
Comments Letters SIRS,--For some years past, Mr. Charles Oldham has regularly published observations on t h e midsummer movements of Swallows, House- and Sand-Martins and Swifts at t h e Tring and Elstree Reservoirs in t h e Transactions of the Herts Nat. Hist. Soc. An id...
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Notes

01 December 1940
Comments Notes DURING a visit to Achill Island from June 6th to 16th, 1938, I made records of species seen, and my observations may be of interest as a supplement to the paper by Mr. R. S. R. Fitter in the issue of British Birds for November, 1940. I covered most of th...
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Review

01 November 1940
Comments Reviews A Waterhen's Worlds. By Eliot Howard. (Cambridge University Press) Illustrated, ios. 6d, net. I T has been rightly observed t h a t a new book by Mr. Eliot Howard is always an event in the ornithological world. His last work, The Nature of a Bird's World,...
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Notes

01 November 1940
Comments Notes As the display of the Hooded Crow (Corvus c. comix) has not been fully recorded, the following notes may be of interest. While watching a flock of some fourteen birds on December 9th, 1938, the trait observed by Miss E. V. Baxter and Miss L. J. Rintoul w...
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