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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Reviews

01 October 1940
Comments Reviews Islands Years. By F. Fraser Darling, D . S c , F.R.S.E. (Bell & Sons.) Illustrated. 12s. net. T H E R E is much in this book to charm and interest the naturalist reader. Dr. Fraser Darling sets out to describe t h e life he and his family led on three uni...
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Notes

01 October 1940
Comments Notes DURING a visit to Aranmore in May, 1886, Mr. H. M. Wallis observed Tree-Sparrows (Passer montanus), probably only one pair, frequenting the roof of a cabin and the adjoining fields (Zoologist, 1886, p. 489, and Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat, Hist Soc, I...
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