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01 February 1970 Comments Letters The Hastings Rarities I was interested in the recent revival of the controversy concerning the Hastings Rarities {Brit. Birds, 62: 364381). In 1939 a friend of mine in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company succeeded in getting for me some specimens of the geese t...

Reviews

01 February 1970 Comments Reviews Book of British Birds. Edited by R. S. R. Fitter. Drive Publications for the Reader's Digest Association and the Automobile Association, London, 1969. 472 pages, numerous illustrations (mostly in colour), diagrams and maps. 75 s. The combined publishing v...

Notes

01 February 1970 Comments Notes New species of subcutaneous mite in Shags and Cormorants In the course of post-mortem examinations of Shags Pbalacrocorax aristotelis and Cormorants P. carbo from the Fame Islands, Northumberland, we found many carcasses infested with a subcutaneous mite ...

Mediterranean Gulls nesting in Hampshire

01 February 1970 Comments Main paper The following events took place in a colony of gulls and terns at the mouth of the Beaulieu River in Hampshire. This colony has been described elsewhere (Taverner 1965) and so all that need be repeated here is an outline of its main features. The centre i...

The birds of Foulness

01 February 1970 Comments Main paper Plates 8-10 Foulness and the Maplin Sands (fig. 1) are essentially a vast triangle of sand, mud, saltings and grassland, roughly eight miles across the base and ten miles long, on the Essex coast between the River Crouch and the River Thames. Foulness, Ne...

Recent reports

01 February 1970 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary is concerned mainly with the spring passage and arrivals of summer visitors during March 1970 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. Most of the vagrants, an...

News & Comments

01 February 1970 Comments News and comment The search for avian influenza Growing evidence suggests that the new strains of Influenza A, which affects mankind and various domestic animals at intervals Â·with serious results, may originate among wild birds. The World Health Organisation has reque...

Books Received

01 May 1952 Comments Editorials Bird-watchers' Delight. By John Warham (Country Life. 18s.) The Birds of the Malav Peninsula, Singapore and Penang. By A. G. Glenister. (O.U.P. 35s.) Bird Recognition, 2. By James Fisher (Pelican Books, js. 6d.)...

Letters

01 May 1952 Comments Letters --The increasing use of various types of colour-marking for the field recognition of birds must lead to confusion between individual experiments unless an authoritative central register can be compiled. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the British Tru...

Reviews

01 May 1952 Comments Reviews The Study of Instinct. By N. Tinbergen. (Oxford U.P., 1951. 25s.). Field observers have long felt the need of an authoritative, condensed summing up of the vast but fragmentary and often contradictory mass of fact and theory which has been accumulating ab...

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