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Bird foods and feeding-habits as subjects for Amateur research

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper I N THE STRAIGHT-FORWARD, descriptive natural history of any species, the food which it eats is an obvious item. T h e century and a half of scientific ornithology which has followed The Natural History of Selborne has seen the compilation of qualitative ... Read More

Letters

01 July 1957 Comments Letters T H E C O L L E C T I O N O F R E C O R D S F O R ANALYSIS S I R S , -- Y o u r correspondent, Mr. T. C. Smout, raises issues of fundamental importance (antea, vol. xlix, pp. 287-288). If a paper is put forward for publication in a scientific form and pur... Read More

Notes

01 July 1957 Comments Notes 1956, a female Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) wearing a British Museum ring (941642) was recaptured in the decoy a t Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. She was accompanied by four ducklings, estimated to be four or five days old. This female was marked at Slimbri... Read More

Obituary: Stuart Smith, D.Sc, Ph.D. (1906-1963)

01 October 1955 Comments Obituaries T H E U N T I M E L Y D E A T H of Dr. Stuart Smith on j t h August, 1963 as a result of unexpected complications following an operation which it had been anticipated would be a comparatively minor one, has deprived British ornithology of one of its most ... Read More