Reviews

01 March 1961
Comments Reviews Atlas of European Birds. By K. H . Voous. N e l s o n , London, i960. 284 pages; 419 maps and 355 photographs. 70s. One of the post-war developments in ornithology has been the attention given to bird distribution. There has been a growing realisation of ...
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Notes

01 March 1961
Comments Notes Beetles in the plumage of birds.--On 25 th May 1959 I picked up a freshly dead Swift (Apus apus) on the sloping concrete bank of Hilfield Park Reservoir, Hertfordshire. On examining the bird I discovered a single beetle of the species Haltka ohracearighti...
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Do English Woodpigeons Migrate?

01 July 1955
Comments Main paper T H E object of this short paper is to draw attention to a curious problem in the hope that others will help in solving it. The observations here described, made independently by Lack round Oxford and by Ridpath in Kent and Sussex, cannot be satisfactoril...
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