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Photographic studies of some less familiar birds, LXII. Snowy Owl

01 December 1954 Comments Main paper (Plates 69-72). As these photographs well show, the Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca) is an impressive creature, the adult male (plate 72) being white or creamy-white, sometimes unmarked or practically so and at most having only sparse scattering of bars and s... Read More

The pattern of migration in 1953 at the Irish Sea bird observatories

01 December 1954 Comments Main paper T H E present paper is based on reports published by the four southwestern Bird-Observatories, Bardsey, Great Saltee, Lundy, and Skokholm. These reports are restricted to a general description of the main movements of each species, and the field-seasons v... Read More

Reviews

01 December 1954 Comments Reviews The Birds of the British Isles. By D. A. Bannerman and G. E. Lodge. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1954). Vol. 3. 45s. THIS third volume completes the Passerines, covering the warblers, thrushes, chats, nightingales, Robin etc., wrens and swallows in the same... Read More

The migration of the Iceland Merlin

01 December 1954 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory). T H E large size of the Merlins (Falco columbarins) trapped when on passage at Fair Isle in 1950-1951 led me to doubt the statement in The Handbook (Vol. I l l , p . 23) that resident British birds are augmented in autumn by ... Read More