Letters

01 October 1958 Comments Letters EGGS D I S A P P E A R I N G F R O M P E R E G R I N E E Y R I E S S I R S , -- T h e paper by D r . D . A. Ratcliffe on " B r o k e n eggs in Peregrine eyries" (antea, pp. 23-29) has greatly interested me, as it seems to throw considerable light on past ...
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Notes

01 October 1958 Comments Notes Killdeer in Cornwall.--On 26th December 1957, a bird was accidently shot during a snipe shoot in a small marsh on the edge of Trembleath W o o d , St. Columb Major, near Newquay, Cornwall. It was sent to the British Museum (Natural History) where it was f...
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Special review

01 August 1955 Comments Reviews (Part II) T H E Lariformes a r e considered a separate order by the Russians and are dealt with by G. P . Dementiev. On the one hand, he writes, they approach the waders and on the other the auks. But " t h e common morphological characteristics are not n...
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