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Letters

01 September 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to t h e article on " The Breeding-habits of t h e Dartford Warbler," and t o t h e statement on page 218, I have never seen a Dartford Warbler's nest in England, a n d know nothing of their habits in this country. I n t h e...

Reviews

01 September 1963 Comments Reviews British Diving Ducks. By J. G. Millais, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Vol. II. Seventeen coloured and twenty-five uneoloured plates. Longmans. In two volumes, £12 12s. net. IN our last volume (pp. 365-70) we gave an extended notice of the fisst part of Mr. Mill...

Notes

01 September 1963 Comments Notes A YOUNG drake Gadwall {Anas strepera) was shot on J a n u a r y 14th, 1913, a t Stretton. I saw t w o K n o t s (Canutus canutus) on October 12th, 1913, a t Bellfields Reservoir. I watched t h e m for some time through powerful glasses, a n d when one fle...

Erythrism in the Eggs of British Birds.

01 September 1963 Comments Main paper ALTHOUGH many scattered notes on this subject may be found in the various ornithological journals, very little has hitherto been done to collect these separate records; and beyond a short note by Adolf Kricheldorff in the Zeitschrift fur Oologie, XIII., ...

A statistical examination of the Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access of the great flood of rarities from east Sussex and west Kent during the first two decades of this century, from the internal evidence presented by the statistical aspects of the records themselves. The consequences of various hypotheses which assume t...

Editorial: Setting the record straight

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access D E P A R T I N G F R O M our normal pattern, we are devoting the whole of this much enlarged issue of British Birds to a single main subject, known already to some, and soon to be familiar to many, as the case of the Hastings Rarities. Half a century ...

The Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access CONTENTS Introduction Definition of the Hastings Rarities Peculiarities of the pattern Comparison with current experience Observers and collectors Prices and collections Possibilities of cool deception Publication and correspondenceO F T H E 520 F O E ...

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