Letters

01 July 1968
Comments Letters The role of sunbathing in birds Sirs,--Sunbathing has been the subject of repeated comment in British Birds (for example, J. Gibb, 40: 172-174; V. C. Wynne-Edwards, 40: 256; N. Rollin, 41: 304-305; and, more recently, C. W. Teager, 60: 361-363 and D. Good...
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Reviews

01 July 1968
Comments Reviews Pigeons and Doves of the World. By Derek Goodwin. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 1967. 446 pages; three colour plates; many maps and line-drawings. £6 6s. In his opening paragraph, Derek Goodwin writes of feral pigeons bri...
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Notes

01 July 1968
Comments Notes Little Grebes choking to death on fish.--On ioth March 1968, at Brompton-on-Swale, near Catterick, Yorkshire, J. V. Anderson discovered a freshly dead bird on the river bank, with a fish jammed in its bill. I visited the spot with him the next day and fou...
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