Recent Reports and News

01 August 1960 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 he reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Reviews

01 August 1960 Comments Reviews The Bird in the Hand. By R. K. Cornwallis and A. E. Smith. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, i960. 69 pages. 4s. (Obtainable from the B.T.O., 2 King Edward Street, Oxford, at 4s. 6d. including postage.) At last the bird-ringer has available the type ...
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Notes

01 August 1960 Comments Notes Attempted coition by Little Stints on autumn passage.--At Radipole Lake, Weymouth, Dorset, on 4th October 1957, I became very interested in the behaviour of two Little Stints (Calidris minutd). One was making short runs or low level flights across a shall...
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Letter

01 June 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,'--As Dr. Landsborough Thomson mentioned in the Report of t h e Bird-Ringing Committee (antea, Vol. X X X I I , p . 384), a pamphlet is being prepared on traps and trapping. Descriptions of some well-known methods such as t h e " Potter " trap, strin...
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Reviews

01 June 1939 Comments Reviews Birds as Animals. By James Fisher. (Heinemann.) 12s. 6d. net. I N this book Mr, Fisher has, t o p u t it briefly, reviewed t h e life of t h e bird by reviewing t h e literature concerning it. H e gives a reference for every statement and his bibliography...
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