May report

01 September 1976
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during May was generally warm with several hot spells, particularly in the second week, and was dominated by winds from a southerly quarter, which encouraged the overshooting of so...
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News and Comment

01 September 1976
Comments News and comment Endangered species The expected failure of the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Bill to become law in this Parliamentary session (Brit. Birds, 69: 156157) will allow conservationists and Government alike time to consider the reasoning behind passing...
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Letters

01 April 1938
Comments Letters SIRS,--Since a t one or two widely separated localities in t h e Midlands this bird appears t o be on t h e increase, a n d in places is actually re-establishing itself after years of absence, i t h a s been thought desirable t o hold a thorough inquiry i...
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Reviews

01 April 1938
Comments Reviews Handbuch der Deutschen Vogelkunde. Edited by G. Niethammer. Bd. i . Passeres (Leipzig : Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1937). T H E late Ernst Hartert was so impressed with t h e plan of the Practical Handbook t h a t after this had been taken in hand h...
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Notes

01 April 1938
Comments Notes I FIND that Mr. H. G. Alexander's Chart of Bird-Song (antea, Vol. XXIX, p. 194) has no record of the song of the Grey Wagtail (Motacilla c. cinerea) between mid-January and mid-March. The report of a song which I heard at 5.20 p.m. on February 24th, 1938...
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