Letter

01 May 1953
Comments Letters SIRS,--One of our most important bird-reserves, Havergate Island, Suffolk, was severely damaged by the exceptional tide which swept down the East Anglian coast on February 1st. This island is not only unique in t h a t it contains the only British breedin...
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Review

01 May 1953
Comments Reviews KKVIKW : COUNTY BIKD KEI>OKT. North Staffordshire Field Club, Annual Report, 1951-52. Edited by H. V. Thompson. A short report on birds includes notes on duck on Copmere in 1951. Goosanders were present in some numbers from January to March and from Novem...
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Notes

01 May 1953
Comments Notes saw a Terek Sandpiper [Xenus cinereus) on Cowpen Marsh, Teesmouth, Co Durham. It was on the mud bordering; a flash behind the sea-wall originally with a substantial flock of Redshank (Tringa totanus) and Grey Plover (Squatarola squatarola), most of which ...
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The birds of the St. Tudwal Islands

01 May 1953
Comments Main paper (Plate 27, left) THE two St. Tudwal Islands lie in Cardigan Bay a mile off the east coast of the Lleyn Peninsula of Caernarvonshire: their Ordovician rock is Arenig including Skiddaw slate, and has a thin covering of sandy turf. The W e s t Island, some 4...
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The Collared Turtle Dove in Europe

01 May 1953
Comments Main paper Page Introduction... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 153 The Superspecies ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 154 The Barbary Dove ... ... ... ... 155 Hybrids 155 Streptope.Ua decaocto : its past and present distribution... ... ... 156 Japan Page 156 The Uppe...
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The Sexual Displays of Swallows

01 May 1941
Comments Main paper THE quantitative aspects of the reproduction of the Swallow (Hirundo r. rustica) have been intensively studied in the enquiries of the British Trust for Ornithology (antea, Vol. XXIX, pp. 3-21, Vol. XXX, pp. 98-116) and in many other surveys; but there re...
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Nest-Sanitation

01 May 1941
Comments Main paper Faeces carried; no data for first few days ; at a late stage young defaecate from the opening ; if deposited on " doorstep " they are carried; if they fall clear they are left, even if conspicuous (B.H.R., R.G.A., A.H.M.C). [Voided at entrance of nest and...
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Notes

01 May 1941
Comments Notes WHEN reading Mr. D. Lack's article on the Chaffinch (antea, p. 216), I was particularly interested in the paragraph on " female song." Just over a year ago (early in March, 1940) I heard at Brent Park, Hendon, a bird singing, which I did not recognize at...
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Seventeenth-Century "Poultry"

01 May 1941
Comments Main paper has recently come to my notice a 26-page pamphlet by Adam Shewring, entitled The Plain-dealing Poulterer, and published in London in 1699. The author in his preface states that he has " thought it good after my many years experience, and knowledge gotten ...
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