News and comment

01 February 1967
Comments News and comment T h e National Cage Birds Show.--As usual, the National Cage Birds Show at London's Olympia from 8th to ioth December 1966 was dominated by canaries and budgerigars, and there seemed to be even fewer foreign species of special interest to the British fiel...
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Reviews

01 February 1967
Comments Reviews In Search of Birds. By Collingwood Ingram. Witherby, London, 1966. 286 pages. 30s. This is a colourful patchwork quilt of sixty years' and a very good thirty shillings' worth of ornithological observations, experiences and ruminations, which no one with e...
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Notes

01 February 1967
Comments Notes Fulmars sitting in trees.--Fulmars Fulmarus glaciatis in east Sutherland have been noted for their versatility ever since Frank Darling and Averil Morley recorded that they -were frequenting the roof of Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, in 1947 {Brit. Birds, 40: ...
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Reviews

01 April 1941
Comments Reviews Lundy : Isle of Puffins. By Richard Perry. (Lindsay Drummond.) With 37 photographs by Alan Richardson. 12s. 6d. net. T H I S book is the result of observation during the five summer months of 1939 which Mr. Perry spent on Lundy, off the N. Devon coast. It...
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Notes

01 April 1941
Comments Notes THE recoveries of ringed Redwings (Turdus musicus), though still few, are of sufficient interest to bring together in a separate note. No recovery of a ringed Redwing was reported until early in 1938, although up to that time 576 had been marked. Then tw...
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