Report on bird ringing for 1951

01 August 1952
Comments Main paper Bird-Ringing Committee, British Trust for Ornithology. This is the fifteenth r e p o r t ! issued on behalf of the Committee, continuing; the earlier sequence under the title " T h e British Birds Marking S c h e m e . " It is in the form instituted last ...
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Notes

01 August 1952
Comments Notes Rogers informs us that on April i s t , 1950, he watched a Starling {Sturnus vulgaris) attacking a Chrysanthemum. Leaves were torn off, pecked into shreds and left on the ground, b u t were later carried off with other nesting material. Mr. R. G. Finnis r...
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Letters

01 August 1952
Comments Letters SIRS,--The Ibis for April 1953 will include a group of papers on Visible Migration (particularly in passerine birds) as observed in various countries. The newly-formed Sub-committee on Visible Migration of the British Trust for Ornithology (see below) fee...
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Reviews

01 October 1947
Comments Reviews More Birds of the Day. By Eric Hosking and Cyril Newberry. (Collins, London, 1946). 125 6d. net. The great popularity of t h e authors' Birds of the Day has led t h e m to follow this up with a sequel providing a no less admirable picture gallery of Briti...
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Notes

01 October 1947
Comments Notes ON June 22nd, 1947, in a wood just outside Calais, I had a good view of a male Golden Oriole (Oriolus 0. oriolus), sitting in sunlight on a bare twig of a lombardy poplar, about 30 feet from the ground. It called continuously for about eight minutes. The...
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Notes on Sand-Martins

01 October 1947
Comments Main paper IN view of the recent notes on the display of the Sand-Martin (Riparia r. riparia) by A. Watson (antea, Vol. xxxix, p. 282) and A. S. Thom (antea, p. 20) the following notes may be of interest. My observations were made between 1942 and 1945 along the ri...
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