Reviews

01 April 1957
Comments Reviews By LEONARD W . W I N G . (Ronald Press Company, New York, 1956). 539 pages, 222 textfigures and numerous tables. Price $6.75. THERE is g r e a t need at the present time for a general biology of birds covering the whole field, and the present book fills ...
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Notes

01 April 1957
Comments Notes of Boelus, Nebraska, informs me that he wing-tipped a young female White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) whilst shooting on the North Platte river in the autumn of 1903 or 1904--he is not sure which---and took the bird back to his farm. H e goes on to say...
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Reviews

01 January 1945
Comments Reviews The Duck Decoys of Essex. By W. E. Glegg. Essex Naturalist, Vol. xxvii, 1943-4, PP- 191-207 and 211-225, MR. W. E . GLEGG in this scholarly paper brings up to date his extensive knowledge of t h e Essex decoys and includes an interesting account of the ar...
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Notes

01 January 1945
Comments Notes reference to Capt. A. C. Fraser's note on this subject (antea, p. 94), I have the following note in my diary for December ioth, 1943 :-- Watched three Bullfinches (one male and two females) They were low down on Snowberry (Symphoricarpus) shrubs and at t...
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