Recent reports and news

01 May 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not he regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers'judgement alone,from sources generally found to he reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of spa...
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Letters

01 May 1960 Comments Letters Migrations of the Oystercatcher Sirs,--Since Mr. D . G. Andrew in his recent paper {Brit. Birds, 5 2: 216-220) on the migrations of the Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostrakgus) makes some criticism of my earlier paper on the same subject (Brit. Birds, 50: 519...
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Reviews

01 May 1960 Comments Reviews The Birds of the British Isles. By David A. Barmerman. Illustrated by George E. Lodge. Vol. VIII. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1959. 400 pages; 26 colour plates. £3 3s. The eighth volume is both readable and informative and, like the others, very refre...
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Notes

01 May 1960 Comments Notes Broken e g g s i n nests of Sparrowhawk.--I can add two records to Dr. D . A. Ratcliffe's list (Brit. Birds, 53: 128-129) of broken eggs of Sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus), one of them showing that the phenomenon goes back some time. On 7th June 1927, near...
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Letters

01 December 1950 Comments Letters SIRS,---A note recently published in British Birds (antea, p. 89) commenting on the presence of Bewick's Swans a t Malltraeth, suggests t h a t the status of this species in Anglesey is t h a t of a n occasional visitor. These birds are, however, more reg...
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Review

01 December 1950 Comments Reviews Robin Redbreast. By David Lack. (Oxford University Press ; L o n d o n : Geoffrey Cumberlege. 15/-). In this volume, which appears to be a by-product of his earlier work and is a sort of ornithological jeu d'esprit, Dr. Lack deals with the " unnatural h i...
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