Recent reports and news

01 January 1962 Comments News and comment [These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] Our last summary reviewed the occurrences of unusual Passerines and of all American species from early August to November, against a background of the more striking movements of common land ...
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Notes

01 January 1962 Comments Notes G o l d e n E a g l e a t t a c k i n g Reindeer.--With reference to the recent papers by Dr. K. Curry-Lindahl and Dr. G. Bergman on the food and feeding habits of birds of prey in Fenno-Scandia (Brit, Birds, 54: 297-306, 307-320), it may be of interest t...
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Letters

01 December 1937 Comments Letters SIRS,--In his article (antea, p . 137) Mr. George Brown notes t h a t a Robin {Erithacus r. melophilus) "appeared t o take quite an interest in the Blackbird's efiorts" before a looking-glass, b u t itself never displayed. Since I read this article a Robi...
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Reviews

01 December 1937 Comments Reviews More Songs of Wild Birds. By E. M. Nicholson and Ludwig Koch. (H. F . & G. Witherby.) Gramophone Records and Illustrated. 15s. PERHAPS the best thing t h a t can be said of these three new double records of British Bird songs is t h a t they are even bett...
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Notes

01 December 1937 Comments Notes I FIRST noticed a Sky-Lark (Alauda a. arvensis) building amongst rough grass on the West Lancashire Golf Course on June 12th, 1937. The nest then consisted of a hollow in black earth with a partial rim and bottom lining of dry grass, Once when the hen wa...
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Notes on Outer Hebridean birds

01 December 1937 Comments Main paper SINCE Colonel Meinertzhagen pointed out (Ibis, 1934, pp. 52-61) that the Outer Hebrides present a particularly interesting feature of geographical variation in certain species, several short notes have amplified details. My own studies of the subject have...
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Kittiwakes as shore-birds

01 December 1937 Comments Main paper staying at Seascale, Cumberland, in August, 1937, I discovered a place on the coast at Sellafield, where quantities of sea-birds were always to be seen. In addition to thousands of Curlews and Oyster-catchers and many Redshanks, Lapwings, Turnstones and o...
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