Monthly marathon

01 November 1996 Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...
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Recent reports

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...
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News and comment

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...
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Looking Back

01 November 1996 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...
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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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