News and comment

01 March 1965
Comments News and comment Controlled shooting at Caerlaverock.--In April 1957 the Nature Conservancy made a National Nature Reserve of Caerlaverock Merses and the adjacent tidal sand-banks, a total of some 13,500 acres in Dumfriesshire, Because this area on the north shore of the ...
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Letters

01 March 1965
Comments Letters T h e absurdity of t h e t e r m 'soft parts' Sirs,--In spite of the fact that we recently published a paper entitled 'Diseases of the skin and soft parts of wild birds' (Brit. Birds, 57: 175179), we should like to suggest that the use of the term 'soft p...
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Reviews

01 March 1965
Comments Reviews Birdsof the Scilly Isles. By Hilda M. Quick. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1964. 125 p a g e s ; line-drawings. 10s. fid. (paper-back); 21s, (hard-covers). This unpretentious little book is the first ever published on the birds of the Isles of Scilly. Primarily...
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Notes

01 March 1965
Comments Notes Mallard's devotion to nest i n face of fire.--On 13th April 1964, while attempting to beat out a grass fire covering some 50 square yards at Ditchford gravel-pits near Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, L. York was amazed to see a female Mallard Anas platy...
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The New Dictionary

01 March 1965
Comments Main paper A New Dictionary of Birds. Edited by Sir A. Landsborough Thomson. Nelson, London, 1964. 928 pages; 16 coloured and 48 monochrome plates. £5 5s. ' S O M E BOOKS', we were all told long ago, 'are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to b...
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Reviews

01 September 1961
Comments Reviews The Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh. By H . Albert Hochbaum. Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, U.S.A., 1959 (second edition). 207 pages; 18 photographs. $4.50. Originally published towards the end of the 1939-45 war, this was the first of a series of authorita...
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Notes

01 September 1961
Comments Notes Manx Shearwater d i g g i n g by daylight.--At about 2.30 p.m. on 15th May 1961, I was walking in bright sunlight on a sloping cliff on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, when I heard a Manx Shearwater (Procellaria puffinus) calling from its burrow. Kneeling down w...
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