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Letters

01 March 1963 Comments Letters SIES,--Mr. Glegg's note in your current number (Vol. VII., p. 56) concerning the nest of this species which he found beside one of the reservoirs a t Walthamstow on J u n e 11th, hardly does full justice to the extraordinary wealth of bird-life to be seen...

Notes

01 March 1963 Comments Notes IT is gratifying to see Mr. C. S. Meares's note on th Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) breeding in Shropshire an Norfolk (British Birds, Vol. VI., p. 371), and to find that i has also bred in Surrey (Countryside, Vol. V., p. 387). Ther can be no doubt as...

The Sequence of Plumages of the Common Eider

01 March 1963 Comments Main paper accounts have appeared in the works of naturalists on the subject of the plumage of the male and female Eider (Somateria m. mollissima) and the age at which the sexes arrive at maturity. In nearly all of these there is much guesswork owing to the small se...

Obituary: The Late Philip Lutley Sclater

01 March 1963 Comments Obituaries W E greatly regret to announce the death, on June 27th, 1913, as the result of a carriage accident, of Philip Lutley Sclater, D.Sc, F.R.S., at the age of eightythree years. The loss of so eminent an ornithologist will be deeply felt by all bird-lovers, an...

Two Yellow-Headed Wagtails at Fair Isle: A New British Bird

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper T w o ist-winter examples of the Yellow-headed W a g t a i l (Motacilla citreola), a Siberian species not previously recorded in the British Isles, were captured at Fair Isle on 20th September and 1 st October 1954. The first, ringed' B 88594, w a s caugh...

Siberian Thrush on the Isle of May: A New British Bird

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper O N 2nd October 1954 an adult male Siberian Thrush (Turdus sibiricus) was trapped on the Isle of May. It had been glimpsed, but not positively identified, shortly before dusk on the previous day and was still present on the island when we left on the 4th....

Stilt Sandpiper in Yorkshire: A New British Bird

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper O N 31st August 1954 Peter W a t e r t o n and Edward E . Jackson, who were staying at the Spurn Bird Observatory, noticed an unusual wader on marshy land north of Kilnsea, Yorkshire. The descriptions they g a v e did not fit any bird ever known to have v...

Wilson's Phalarope In Fife: A New British Bird

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper O N the afternoon of the n t h September 1954 we were birdwatching on an area of reclaimed ground between North Queensferry and Rosyth Dockyards, Fife, where there are two shallow fresh water pools. The two pools are separated from each other by a raised ...

American Land birds in Western Europe

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper DURING the past ten years it has become increasingly apparent that the status of American land-bird vagrants in the British Isles would have t o be reconsidered. One of us ( R . S . R . F . ) wrote in 1950 t o t h e B . O . U . List-Committee, which was t...

Editorial

01 January 1955 Comments Editorials arisen in maintaining the standards and developing the scope and service of this journal during the 195o's, following the early death of H. F. Witherby's chosen successor, B. W. Tucker. We explained how the capacity of the team which had then been improvi...

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