Requests for information

01 May 1962
Comments Editorials Wreck of Fulmars in February and March 1962.--Unusual numbers of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) were noted close inshore on various parts of the east coast during February, In some areas a high proportion were of dark or intermediate phases. During the next...
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Letters

01 May 1962
Comments Letters Ringed birds in snow Sirs,--During the snowy period of early January 1962, in my garden sanctuary near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, I saw two ringed birds, a Blue Tit (Pants caerukus) and a Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus), with their rings thickly coated ...
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Reviews

01 May 1962
Comments Reviews Deaths of birds and mammals from toxic chemicals, January-June 1961. T h e second report of the Joint Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on T o x i c Chemicals, i n collaboration with the Game ...
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Notes

01 May 1962
Comments Notes Wilson's Phalarope in Cornwall.--Early on the morning of 15 th June 1961 J.E.B. came across an unfamiliar medium-sized wader with plain brown upper-parts and a dull white rump and tail, on Marazion Marsh, Cornwall. He contacted Dr. G. Allsop and between t...
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Reviews

01 October 1954
Comments Reviews Cheltenham and District Naturalists' Society. Report for 1951-1952. Obtainable from L. W. Hayward, 40 High Street, Prestbury, Cheltenham. 2s. 6d. WHILE we welcome this first printed bird report from Cheltenham for 1951 and 1952 we must look forward to far...
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Notes

01 October 1954
Comments Notes and David Lack have given data showing that the times of arrival of greatest numbers of certain Passerines at the Kentish Knock Lightship and on the S.E. coast of England strongly suggest that they left the Continental coast at dawn (antea, vol. xlvi, pp....
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