News and comment

01 March 1966
Comments News and comment National Nature Week.--Probably no further reminder is necessary that next month will see the Council for Nature's well publicised second National Nature Week, to be held from 23rd to 30th April. Local natural history societies, county naturalists' trusts...
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Letters

01 March 1966
Comments Letters Birds carrying dead nestlings Sirs,--With reference to the recent note by W. G. Luton on a House Sparrow Passer domesticus carrying a dead nestling, and the accompanying editorial comment (Brit. Birds, 5 8: 443), I am rather surprised that this practice s...
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Reviews

01 March 1966
Comments Reviews Advances i n the Study of Behavior. Edited by Daniel S. Lehrman, Robert A. H i n d e and Evelyn Shaw. Volume i . Academic Press, N e w York, 1965. 320 pages. 76s. This book is of wide general interest but contains two chapters, both of them by workers at ...
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Notes

01 March 1966
Comments Notes Feeding and resting behaviour of a Snowy Owl in Scilly.--During the five months ftom mid-October 1964 t o mid-March 1965 a female Snowy Owl Nyctea scandiaca visited Tresco, Isles of Scilly, for long periods at a time. She was also seen on various other Is...
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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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