Letter

01 June 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,'--As Dr. Landsborough Thomson mentioned in the Report of t h e Bird-Ringing Committee (antea, Vol. X X X I I , p . 384), a pamphlet is being prepared on traps and trapping. Descriptions of some well-known methods such as t h e " Potter " trap, strin...
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Reviews

01 June 1939 Comments Reviews Birds as Animals. By James Fisher. (Heinemann.) 12s. 6d. net. I N this book Mr, Fisher has, t o p u t it briefly, reviewed t h e life of t h e bird by reviewing t h e literature concerning it. H e gives a reference for every statement and his bibliography...
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Notes

01 December 1933 Comments Notes I T is with the greatest regret t h a t we have to announce the death at Berlin, on the 10th of November, after an illness of only three days, of Dr. Ernst Hartert. Dr. Hartert was renowned as an ornithologist all over the world, but in no country was he...
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Territory Reviewed

01 December 1933 Comments Main paper I T is now some twenty-five years since the theory of " territory " in bird life was enunciated b y Eliot Howard (1907-14, 1920, 1929) as the result of his intensive study of the behaviour of some of the Warblers and Buntings. The attractive nature of the...
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Vipers Preying on Young Birds

01 December 1933 Comments Main paper (Plate 7). ON the moors of North Wales the common viper (Vipera berus) habitually preys on chicks of Red Grouse (Lagopus s. scoticus) and young Meadow-Pipits (Anthus pratensis) and Ring-Ouzels (Turdus t. torquatus). One hot day in early June, 1932, I was ...
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