Letter

01 July 1936 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have often been struck by the apparent differences in colour of Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the Clyde. On May gth, 1936, a t 9.30 a.m. (summer time) I watched half a dozen of these Gulls sitting on a railing on Dunoon pier within a few yar...
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Reviews

01 July 1936 Comments Reviews Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 1935. T H E Report of the Committee for Wild Bird Protection is very full this year and gives a good account of the main ornithological events in the county. Notes by Major A. Buxton on the be...
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Letter

01 April 1936 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n British Birds, Vol. X X V I I . , there were published several letters about early instances of t h e recognition of Territory, a n d Dr. N . F . Ticehurst pointed o u t t h a t t h e possession of territories by Mute Swans was recorded a...
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Reviews

01 April 1936 Comments Reviews The Birds of the Firth of Clyde, including Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, Buteshire, Dumbartonshire and South Argyllshire. By J. M, McWilliam, pp. 164. 10 Plates and Map. Witherby, London. 1936. iss. 6d.> THE last few years have seen rapid changes in the work of...
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Review

01 April 1936 Comments Reviews How to Know British Birds. By Norman H. Joy, M.R.C.S., M.B.O.U., F.R.E.S. (Witherby). Coloured and Black and White Plates. 5s. net. T H I S little book is very good value for money and can be recommended t o beginners and others who want a cheap and relia...
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Letters

01 April 1936 Comments Letters SIRS,--In view of Mr. Lack's note on t h e repeated re-trapping of Robins (antea, p . 288), I m a y mention t h a t in t h e winter of 1929-30, when a t Cambridge, I had a Sparrow t r a p in t h e garden " baited " with seed. Greenfinches (Chloris ch. Mor...
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Letters

01 March 1936 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I was very interested in Mr. H . G. Alexander's letter on t h e movements of sea birds a t Dungeness (antea, pp. 298-9), because I watched a considerable movement of divers there on January 25th, 1936. I first reached t h e coast a t Camber, ...
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Review

01 March 1936 Comments Reviews A Pocket-Book of British Birds. Edited by Charles A. Hall, F.R.M.S. (A. & C. Black). 63 coloured Plates. 5s. net. T H E title of this book is very misleading as one would expect to find in such a book a description or a t least some mention of all the com...
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Review

01 February 1936 Comments Reviews A Vertebrate Fauna of Forth. By Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul and Evelyn V. Baxter, (Oliver & Boyd). Plates and Map. 25s, net. IN 1887, Harvie-Brown arid Buckley, in A Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, etc., began a series of Scottish faunistic works divided into...
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Letters

01 February 1936 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have studied with considerable interest, in the December issue, Mr. H. G. Alexander's article and chart on the song-periods ·of birds, and all the more so as t h e songs and notes of birds have been an engrossing study with me (in Cheshire...
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