Reviews

01 April 1952
Comments Reviews Proceedings of the Xth International Ornithological Congress, Uppsala, June, 1950. "(Almquist & Wicksell, Uppsala, Sweden, 1952. Price Sw. Kr. 35, or £2 8s. 3d. Obtainable direct from Prof. S. Horstadius, Zoologiska Institutionen, Uppsala). T H I S ...
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Notes

01 April 1952
Comments Notes Song-Thrush nesting in a Monkey-Puzzle Tree.--In connexion with the note (antea, p . 287) on a Mistle-Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) nesting in a Monkey Puzzle tree, it may be of interest to record that on May 6th, 1946, at Oxted, Surrey, I found a nest of a...
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Notes and display of the Magpie

01 April 1952
Comments Main paper (with text illustrations by R. GILLMOR). IN July, 1949,1 acquired a juvenile female Magpie (Pica pica) which was fixated on human beings and when adult regarded me as her mate. This bird's behaviour inspired closer observation of wild Magpies for comparat...
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Reviews

01 April 1941
Comments Reviews Lundy : Isle of Puffins. By Richard Perry. (Lindsay Drummond.) With 37 photographs by Alan Richardson. 12s. 6d. net. T H I S book is the result of observation during the five summer months of 1939 which Mr. Perry spent on Lundy, off the N. Devon coast. It...
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Notes

01 April 1941
Comments Notes THE recoveries of ringed Redwings (Turdus musicus), though still few, are of sufficient interest to bring together in a separate note. No recovery of a ringed Redwing was reported until early in 1938, although up to that time 576 had been marked. Then tw...
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Birds of Inner London

01 April 1941
Comments Main paper THESE notes for 1940 are unavoidably incomplete owing to many observers being occupied in National Service. Moreover, toward the end of the year the field of observation was much restricted for various reasons. During 1940 there was one addition to the li...
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