Letters

01 December 1956
Comments Letters I N T E R P R E T A T I O N O F V A R I A T I O N AMONG T H E YELLOW WAGTAILS S I R S , -- May I ask a little of your space in which to comment on some points in Dr. Mayr's summing-up (antea, pp. 115-119) of our present state of knowledge of the Yellow Wa...
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Reviews

01 December 1956
Comments Reviews Edited by Major-General H . P . W . HUTSON, C.B., D . S . O . , O . B . E . , M.C. (Published by British Ornithologists' Union and distributed by H . F . & G. Witherby, Ltd., London, 1956). 268 pages. 21/-, postage 1/6. MANY ornithologists who spend much...
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Notes

01 December 1956
Comments Notes Albinism related to age.--With reference to notes on this subject (antea, vol. xlvii, p . 406; vol. xlix, p . 153), I have come across a similar case, also with a male Blackbird (Turdus merula). The bird was ringed at Burgess Hill, Sussex, on 13th Decembe...
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Movements of House Sparrows

01 December 1956
Comments Main paper T H E migration of birds--the routes they take, the means by which they orient themselves and reach their destination--is at present receiving' considerable attention. The House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) is generally considered to be a sedentary bird an...
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Some notes on the Crested Lark

01 June 1948
Comments Main paper the summer of 1940 until May 1945 we were in various prison camps scattered over Germany and Poland. For most of the time two of us were together. In 1946 one of us was for a short time again in Germany. Crested Larks (Galerida c. cristata) were seen wher...
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Letters

01 June 1948
Comments Letters SIRS,--The Royal Naval Bird-Watching Society has now been in existence for just over a year. I t has some t w o hundred and sixty members drawn from the ranks of t h e Royal Navy, Royal Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Navies. These observers range fr...
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Notes

01 June 1948
Comments Notes As a member of the local fire brigade I was able to make some close observations on the behaviour of birds at a big oil-tank fire at Pembroke Dock in August and September, 1940. The fire blazed for many days and gave rise to intense heat and an immense c...
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