July reports

01 October 1974
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records A Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris was present in the gannetry on Herrnaness, Unst (Shetland), throughout the summer. Following the June report of a Fulmar Fulmarus glaci...
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News and comment

01 October 1974
Comments News and comment Growth of the British and Irish list The number of full species admitted to the British and Irish list during the 17 decades which have elapsed since 1800 has varied from as few as four to as many as 27 per decade, the average being 13; Kenneth...
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Notes

01 October 1974
Comments Notes Egg-laying by the Great Crested Grebe Although the behaviour of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus has been intensively studied, many questions are still open. One such question is how Great Crested Grebes lay their eggs, and whether they exhibit ...
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News and comment

01 March 1965
Comments News and comment Controlled shooting at Caerlaverock.--In April 1957 the Nature Conservancy made a National Nature Reserve of Caerlaverock Merses and the adjacent tidal sand-banks, a total of some 13,500 acres in Dumfriesshire, Because this area on the north shore of the ...
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Letters

01 March 1965
Comments Letters T h e absurdity of t h e t e r m 'soft parts' Sirs,--In spite of the fact that we recently published a paper entitled 'Diseases of the skin and soft parts of wild birds' (Brit. Birds, 57: 175179), we should like to suggest that the use of the term 'soft p...
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Reviews

01 March 1965
Comments Reviews Birdsof the Scilly Isles. By Hilda M. Quick. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1964. 125 p a g e s ; line-drawings. 10s. fid. (paper-back); 21s, (hard-covers). This unpretentious little book is the first ever published on the birds of the Isles of Scilly. Primarily...
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Notes

01 March 1965
Comments Notes Mallard's devotion to nest i n face of fire.--On 13th April 1964, while attempting to beat out a grass fire covering some 50 square yards at Ditchford gravel-pits near Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, L. York was amazed to see a female Mallard Anas platy...
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