Notes

01 September 1959
Comments Notes with Mackerel shoals.--During- the months of July, August and September, Mackerel (Scomber scomber) habitually enter the Village Bay of Hirta, St, Kilda, in the late afternoon and evening. These shoals are often pursued by Grey Seals (Halichoerus gryphus)...
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Letters

01 September 1959
Comments Letters K I L D A W R E N S ON STAC AN A R M I N SIRS,--Following- the publication of the recent letters by the Rev. E. A. Armstrong and Mr. Kenneth Williamson on the St. Kilda W r e n (Troglodytes t. hirtensis) (antea, pp. 136-138), we feel that the following i...
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Reviews

01 September 1959
Comments Reviews Chapman & Hall, London, 1959). xi + 624 p a g e s ; many text illustrations. 94s. T H E DISTINGUISHED senior author unfortunately did not live to see the completion of this useful work of reference. It is a well produced and suitably illustrated volume, o...
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Notes

01 January 1941
Comments Notes ON November 2nd, 1940, in a field with small trees at the edge of a wood near Potter's Bar, I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity of watching a bird, which was evidently a Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor). The bird flew to the top of a bare hawt...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 January 1941
Comments Main paper Thornton - le - dale (Yorks), Bedlington (Northumb), 4.1.39, by R. M. Garnett. 7-3-4°Wetherby (Yorks), 30.1.2.39, by Preston (Lanes), --.2.40. Bootham School. Gt. Budworth (Ches), 12.11.38, Grantham (Lines), Spring, by A. W. Boyd. 194°Ditto 22.11.37. M...
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