News and comment

01 November 1966 Comments News and comment World conference of the I.C.B.P.--The 14th world conference of the International Council for Bird Preservation, held in Cambridge from n t h to 15th July 1966, was attended by representatives from 31 different countries. A wide range of topics were discus...
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Letters

01 November 1966 Comments Letters Fault-bars as a means of ageing birds Sirs,---Last year I read a letter by C. J. Mead on the ageing of birds by means of fault-bars (Brit. Birds, 58: 227-228), in which he referred to the work of W. E. Glegg who noted fault-bars on the tails of 737 bird s...
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Reviews

01 November 1966 Comments Reviews Population Studies of Birds. By David Lack. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1966. 341 pages; 1 photographic plate; many textfigures. 63s. Dr. Lack's first book on animal populations, The Natural Regulation of Animal Numbers (1954), embraced all animals, but most...
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Reviews

01 March 1951 Comments Reviews The Moult-migration of the Sheld-Duck. By R. A. H. Coombes (Ibis, Vol. 92, pp. 405-418). In this paper Mr. Coombes describes work on the Sheld-Duck, which he has carried on as occasion offered over a number of years and intensively throughout the summer o...
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Notes

01 March 1951 Comments Notes PARTLY as a result of a request for such information (antea, vol. xliii, p. 223) we have received a certain number of records of summer visitors spending the winter of 1949-50 in the British Isles. We have also received several records of species seen un...
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Obituary: E. W. Hendy

01 March 1951 Comments Obituaries ERNEST WILLIAM HENDY, who died in his 78th year on November 1st, 1950, brought a poet's mind and a classical training to the study of birds and wild life, and his approach bore fruit in a rare degree of insight into Nature, matched by an originality and ...
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