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Reviews

01 August 1937 Comments Reviews The London Naturalist for J936 and t h e London Bird Report for X936. (London N.H. S o c , Keppel Street, W.C.i) 3s. 6d, and is, 6d, T H E ornithological records of the London Natural History Society have steadily increased and are now for the first time...

Notes

01 August 1937 Comments Notes "--As many ornithologists are already aware a new edition of A Practical Handbook of British Birds has been for some time in preparation. We should be very grateful to any of our readers who would now send us notes of any omissions or errors in the origin...

The function of the Goldcrest's Crest

01 August 1937 Comments Main paper ON May 23rd, 1936, in a very open patch of woodland near Totnes, Devon, my attention was drawn by a soft twittering to two Goldcrests (Regulus r. anglorum), which were perched on a cement block a few feet above the ground. The birds were facing each other...

The Red-throated Diver in North East Land

01 August 1937 Comments Main paper (Plate 2.) THE following notes are the result of observations I made in North East Land, the second largest island of the Spitsbergen archipelago, between August, 1935, and August, 1936, when I was a member of the Oxford University Arctic Expedition, unde...

Letters

01 July 1937 Comments Letters SIRS,--I feel that, in order t o bring this u p t o date, some comments are called for as regards Mr. Stanley Lewis's interesting account of " Birds of Steep Holm " (Vol. X X X . , pp. 219-223) in view of t h e fact t h a t for t h e past five years (1933...

Notes

01 July 1937 Comments Notes (Regulus i. ignicapillus).--The skin of one picked up on Clifton Downs, Bristol, in the autumn of 1914 is in the Bristol Museum collections. It has only rarely been recorded from Gloucestershire. NORTHERN WILLOW-WARBLER (Phylloscopus trochilus acredula)....

Some activities of resident Blackbirds in winter

01 July 1937 Comments Main paper sings . . . with greater vigour from late November onwards . . . but with much greater vigour . . . after about the middle of January. The Blackbird... is rarely heard until February, and its best song is hardly heard till April or May. . . . It would se...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 January 1937 Comments Main paper Stanford-on-Avon (Warwick), Cottingham (Northants.), 4.6.36, for Rugby School. 12.7.36. Crowthorne (Berks.), 28.5.36, Watlington (Oxon.), --.8.36. for Wellington College. R I N G E D AS FULL-GROWN. Ullswater (Westmor.), 21.1.36, Labiau, E a s t Prussia, ...

Dr. Charcot and the Birds of Rockall

01 January 1937 Comments Main paper THE tragic fate, in September, 1936, of Dr. Jean Baptiste Etienne Auguste Charcot, who perished with all his companions save one in the French Polar expedition in the " Pourquoi Pas ? " reminded me of a correspondence I had with Dr. Charcot, in 1921, abou...

Birds in Middlesex

01 January 1937 Comments Main paper THE Goldeneye, generally recognized as a marine bird during winter, has been a winter resident on the fresh water at Staines for some years and two other species of similar habit have made their appearance. A single Long-tailed Duck has spent four success...

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Reviews

Notes

The function of the Goldcrest's Crest

The Red-throated Diver in North East Land

Letters

Notes

Some activities of resident Blackbirds in winter

Recovery of Marked Birds

Dr. Charcot and the Birds of Rockall

Birds in Middlesex

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