Letters

01 February 1970
Comments Letters The Hastings Rarities I was interested in the recent revival of the controversy concerning the Hastings Rarities {Brit. Birds, 62: 364381). In 1939 a friend of mine in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company succeeded in getting for me some specimens of the geese t...
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Reviews

01 February 1970
Comments Reviews Book of British Birds. Edited by R. S. R. Fitter. Drive Publications for the Reader's Digest Association and the Automobile Association, London, 1969. 472 pages, numerous illustrations (mostly in colour), diagrams and maps. 75 s. The combined publishing v...
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Notes

01 February 1970
Comments Notes New species of subcutaneous mite in Shags and Cormorants In the course of post-mortem examinations of Shags Pbalacrocorax aristotelis and Cormorants P. carbo from the Fame Islands, Northumberland, we found many carcasses infested with a subcutaneous mite ...
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The birds of Foulness

01 February 1970
Comments Main paper Plates 8-10 Foulness and the Maplin Sands (fig. 1) are essentially a vast triangle of sand, mud, saltings and grassland, roughly eight miles across the base and ten miles long, on the Essex coast between the River Crouch and the River Thames. Foulness, Ne...
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Recent reports

01 February 1970
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary is concerned mainly with the spring passage and arrivals of summer visitors during March 1970 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. Most of the vagrants, an...
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News & Comments

01 February 1970
Comments News and comment The search for avian influenza Growing evidence suggests that the new strains of Influenza A, which affects mankind and various domestic animals at intervals ·with serious results, may originate among wild birds. The World Health Organisation has reque...
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Letters

01 January 1957
Comments Letters " ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE AND BIRD F L I G H T " S I R S , -- I n his letter on the above subject (antea, vol. xlviii, p p . 557-559) I. C. T . Nisbet puts forward an ingenious theory of wind-determination by feel. While agreeing that it is possible, I als...
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Reviews

01 January 1957
Comments Reviews By JAMES FISHER (Pelican Books, London, 1955). 3s. 6d. THIS is the third in an excellent series eventually to total four volumes covering all but the rarer blrds on the British Ost. The birds included faere are the rails, game-birds, and larger perching ...
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Notes

01 January 1957
Comments Notes Group-display of Smews.--On 5th February 1956, at Swithland Reservoir, Leicestershire, I watched a form of social display in a group of Smews (Mergus albellus) consisting of three males and two females, for a period of about half an hour, just before dusk...
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