01 September 1963CommentsLetters
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...
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01 September 1963CommentsReviews
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...
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01 September 1963CommentsNotes
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...
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01 September 1963CommentsMain 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., ...
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01 June 1907CommentsEditorials
EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.ASSISTED BY W. P. PYCRAFT, A.L.S, M.B.O.U. EDITORIAL.BEFORE setting forth our plans, our hopes, and our ambitions for BRITISH BIRDS, we must first expr...
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