Reviews

01 July 1955
Comments Reviews Collins Guide.to Bird Watching. By R. S. R. Fitter. Collins, London, 1963. 254 pages; 112 black-and-white photographs; 49 line drawings by R. A. Richardson. 21s. This book is designed as a complementary volume to the same author's The Pocket Guide to Brit...
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Letters

01 July 1955
Comments Letters N E W S P E C I E S O F F U N G U S F O U N D IN PUFFINS' BURROWS S I R S , -- I have recently discovered a new and very unusual species of fungus, which will shortly be described in the mycological press under the name of Echinotrema clanculare. This was...
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Reviews

01 July 1955
Comments Reviews By E. A. ARMSTRONG. (Collins, " N e w N a t u r a l i s t " special volume, London, 1955). 312 pages, 20 photographs, 41 text-figures. 30s. T H I S notable addition to the series of " N e w N a t u r a l i s t " monographs has, in many ways, a wider scop...
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Special review

01 July 1955
Comments Reviews T H E volume starts with the Charadriiformes which are dealt with by N . A. Gladkov. T h e typical race of the Stone Curlew (Burhinus a'dicnemus) is replaced by the race as tutus to the east of the southern Urals, the birds between the rivers Ural and Emb...
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