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01 February 1962 Comments Editorials Cold weather migrations.--The British Trust for Ornithology and "British Birds are analysing the unusually impressive cold -weather migrations of the week following 28th December 1961. All records of movements, arrivals and departures at this period are o...
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Letters

01 February 1962 Comments Letters What is a British bird ? Sirs,--The recent note and subsequent correspondence on the occurrence of a White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albkollis) in Hampshire {Brit. Birds, 54: 366-367 and 439-440) prompts once more the question: what is a British bird?...
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Reviews

01 February 1962 Comments Reviews D o w n the L o n g Wind (A Study of Bird Migration). By Garth Christian. N e w n e s , London, 1961. 240 pages; 31 plates; 23 maps. 21s. Few branches of ornithology have made more rapid strides than the study of migration and every year now sees the publ...
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Notes

01 February 1962 Comments Notes British-ringed Manx Shearwater recovered in Australia,--The Bird Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology has received a letter dated 22nd November 1961, which reports that the feathers and bones of a sea-bird "black or dark on top with whit...
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Birds with abnormal bills

01 February 1962 Comments Open Access C L O S E C O R R E L A T I O N of the shape and size of a bird's bill with its feeding preferences has been demonstrated even within a species (see Lack 1947, Snow 1954). But individuals with bills differing considerably from the normal also occur, ev...
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Letters

01 January 1938 Comments Letters SIRS,---Miss Hibbert-Ware (Little Owl Inquiry, antea, pp. 215-216) prefaces her remarks on Little Owls 011 Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, with the w o r d s : " T h e following incident seems, however, t o contradict these conclusions [that t h e Little ...
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Reviews

01 January 1938 Comments Reviews Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow. Vol. I. A Population Study of the Song Sparrow. By Margaret M. Nice. Transactions of the Linnean Society of New York, IV : April 1937. 2 47PP- 3 plates, 18 charts, 33 tables. (American Museum of Natural His...
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Notes

01 January 1938 Comments Notes As there is apparently no previous record for the Outer Hebrides, it may be of interest to report that a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) was killed in North Uist on October 27th, 1937, and that I saw another at Newton Lodge, North Uist, on No...
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