Reviews

01 September 1979
Comments Reviews Animal Marking: recognition marking of animals in research. Edited by Bernard Stonehouse. Macmillan, London, 1978. 257 pages; several black-and-white plates and line-drawings. £10.00.  This volume comprises 21 papers delivered at a s...
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Recent Reports

01 September 1979
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers June, with some May and early July records; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to June. The cool spring weather continued in June until 18th, when an anticycl...
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News and comment

01 September 1979
Comments Editorials Eric Hosking's 50 years ago... On 2nd October—his seventieth birthday—a selection of Eric Hosking's photographs will go on exhibition at the Kodak Galleries in High Holborn. The exhibition, to mark Eric's 50 years as a bird-photographer, will be op...
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Requests

01 September 1979
Comments News and comment Colour-marked Greenland White-fronted Geese The Greenland White-fronted Goose Study group is planning to mark birds of the race Anser albifrons flavirostris on the west coast of Greenland with large-numbered, white Darvic rings in summer 1979. ...
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Announcements

01 September 1979
Comments Editorials Reduced subscriptions to members of certain clubs and societies The members of the following clubs and societies are entitled to subscribe to British Birds at a reduced subscription rate. Present subscribers will receive subscription renewal fo...
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Letters

01 September 1979
Comments Letters Peregrine's method of killing prey I read with interest the note on how a Peregrine Falco peregrinus took a Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis, and the accompanying editorial comment (Brit. Birds 71: 37-38). I must say that I thought J. Walpole-Bond...
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