News and comment

01 October 1965 Comments News and comment Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve.--The Nature Conservancy have purchased 1,216 acres of sand dunes between Ainsdale and Formby on the Lanca shire coast and the area has now been statutorily declared as the Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Re...
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Letters

01 October 1965 Comments Letters T h e w i n g pattern of the female Great Bustard Sirs,---In his recent article on 'Flight patterns of the European bus tards' (Brit. Birds, 58: 43-47), Philip J. Stead wrote with reference to the Great Bustard Otis tarda: 'The wing patterns of both sexes...
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Notes

01 October 1965 Comments Notes Turnstone feeding on dead sheep.--On ist March 1964,8 day of heavy mist, we were walking along the shore at Steart Point, Somer set, when we came across the carcase of a sheep. A Carrion Crow Corvus corone and two Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinttsfl...
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Letters

01 March 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--We were interested to read Mr. Nelder's letter in your November, 1952, number (antea, vol. xlv, p. 430) and feel we should like to dispel any idea that possible bias in the collection of records is not already fully appreciated by those responsible...
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Reviews

01 March 1953 Comments Reviews The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1951. The first seven pages of this report are occupied by an account of the various concerted inquiries by the Society the utility of which it is not possible to evaluate from a single years' work. This must be l...
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Reviews

01 March 1953 Comments Reviews Check-List of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. Prepared b y the List Sub-Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union. (B.O.U., 1952). Obtainable from H. F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., 7s. 6d. This list is the result of work begun about 6 years ago. It ...
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