Letters

01 June 1955
Comments Letters Uses of photography and sound-recording to reinforce sight records of unusual birds Sirs,--Your editorial on sight records of unusual birds (Brit. Birds, 55: 557-560), though comprehensive, omits reference to the value of reinforcing such records by photo...
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Reviews

01 June 1955
Comments Reviews Silent Spring. By Rachel Carson. H a m i s h Hamilton, London, 1963. x x i i + 3 0 4 p a g e s . 25s. The theme of this book is that the last two decades have seen an ever increasing use of synthetic organic chemicals to control pest organisms, that these...
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Notes

01 June 1955
Comments Notes Alternative leg positions of birds in cold weather.--It is known that some shore birds, particularly gulls and waders, will adopt alternative leg positions to prevent their feet freezing in cold weather, for example by flying with them tucked forward into...
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Reviews

01 June 1955
Comments Reviews W E know of no precise counterpart to these two slim volumes (to be followed by a third), issued as supplements to Volumes X X I I I and X X I V of L'Oiseau et la Revue Francaise d'Ornithologie during 1954. Each consists of twenty coloured plates, mostly ...
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Notes

01 June 1955
Comments Notes Unusual nest of Black-throated Diver.--The photographs reproduced on plate 40 show an unusual nest of the Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) which I found in June 1954 in central Sweden. This was built up on small rocks in the centre of a large lake whe...
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Special review

01 June 1955
Comments Reviews T H I S volume starts with the Columbiformes which are the work of R. N . Meklenburtsev. The typical race of the Rock Dove (Columba I. livia) has only a relatively limited distribution in the Soviet Union in a truly wild condition. It is to be found in th...
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