Reviews

01 February 1958
Comments Reviews p a g e s ; coloured frontispiece by Roland Green; 12 photographic plates. (Witherby, London, 1957). 21s. INTENDED to provide detailed practical information for keepers, and would-be keepers, of waterfowl, this small book fulfils its aims admirably. A wor...
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Notes

01 February 1958
Comments Notes Leach's Petrels in Shetland.--On 6th August 1957, Leach's Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) were located over the boulderstrewn slopes of The Noup, Foula, Shetland. One was caught and at the same time two others could be heard calling- in flight. One was a...
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The birds of Tiree and Coll

01 February 1958
Comments Main paper of Zoology, Glasgow University*) (Plates 18-20) T H E islands of Tiree and Coll, Inner Hebrides, lie totally within the vice-county Mid Ebudes (103). Situated between Mull and the Barra Isles, they stretch some 45 miles S . W . into the ocean from Ardnamu...
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Letter

01 December 1940
Comments Letters SIRS,--For some years past, Mr. Charles Oldham has regularly published observations on t h e midsummer movements of Swallows, House- and Sand-Martins and Swifts at t h e Tring and Elstree Reservoirs in t h e Transactions of the Herts Nat. Hist. Soc. An id...
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Notes

01 December 1940
Comments Notes DURING a visit to Achill Island from June 6th to 16th, 1938, I made records of species seen, and my observations may be of interest as a supplement to the paper by Mr. R. S. R. Fitter in the issue of British Birds for November, 1940. I covered most of th...
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