Recent reports and News

01 March 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Letters

01 March 1959 Comments Letters "SUB-SONG" AND "SECONDARY SONG" SIRS,---With regard to the paper by Miss P. M. Piicher and myself on "The nature of sub-song" (antea, vol. li, pp. 509-514), I very much regret to find that we were incorrect in stating that the term "sub-song" was used by ...
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Reviews

01 March 1959 Comments Reviews By JAMES C. GREENWAY, Jnr. Illustrated by D. M. REID-HENRY. (Special Publication No. 13, American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, New York, 1958). 518 pages; a coloured frontispiece and 86 ink drawings; maps and diagrams. THIS IS A DISP...
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Notes

01 March 1959 Comments Notes Display of Little Grebe.--A display by a Little Grebe (Padiceps ruficolUs) near Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorkshire, on 4th May 1957, seems to have been a form of penguin-dance (antea, vol. L, pp. 269-270) and does not appear to' be covered by the account in The ...
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Letter

01 April 1953 Comments Letters SIRS.--I am trying to collect information about ultra-quiet bird song (sub-song, etc.) and I should be grateful if you would allow me to appeal through the medium of British Birds for any help that other observers can give me. As records on this subject a...
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Reviews

01 April 1953 Comments Reviews Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society. Twenty-first Annual Report, 1951. Edited by B. H. Ryves, A. G. Parsons and H. M. Quick. T H I S report follows its usual make-up, with systematic notes split up over 3 sections ; there are also separate ta...
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Reviews

01 April 1953 Comments Reviews Mountain Birds. By R. A. H. Coombes. Plates by G. E. Lodge. (Penguin Books, King Penguin series, London, 1952). 4s. 6d. Mountain Birds is written and illustrated with grasp and originality, but is only permitted by the King Penguin format to deal with six...
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