Letters

01 December 1950 Comments Letters SIRS,---A note recently published in British Birds (antea, p. 89) commenting on the presence of Bewick's Swans a t Malltraeth, suggests t h a t the status of this species in Anglesey is t h a t of a n occasional visitor. These birds are, however, more reg...
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Review

01 December 1950 Comments Reviews Robin Redbreast. By David Lack. (Oxford University Press ; L o n d o n : Geoffrey Cumberlege. 15/-). In this volume, which appears to be a by-product of his earlier work and is a sort of ornithological jeu d'esprit, Dr. Lack deals with the " unnatural h i...
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Notes

01 December 1950 Comments Notes " A N T I N G " OF CARRION CROW ON June 15th, 1949, at Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, 1 observed a Carrion Crow (Corvus corone), at a distance of twenty yards, behaving in a peculiar manner. It was squatting on the grass with its feathers widespread. At hal...
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The Iceland Gull in winter

01 December 1950 Comments Main paper 'FOR some obscure reason the Glaucous Gull (Lams hyperboreus) became comparatively numerous in Shetland waters during the winters of the late war. Since then its numbers have dropped back to the normal few. Whatever was the reason for this fluctuation, t...
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Editorial

01 December 1950 Comments Editorials WE are asked by the publishers to announce that the annual subscription to British Birds is to be raised by one shilling. We regret having to remind readers that the cost of living is rising, but we regret still more having to make this increase, small t...
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Letter

01 November 1946 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have observed no less than twenty-three instances between February 27th and March 7th, 1946, where one Rook (Corvus f. frugUegus) was either in or standing upon t h e nest with two attendant Rooks perched close together a t some twelve t o ...
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Reviews

01 November 1946 Comments Reviews Birds in Colour. By Walter Higham. (Collins, 1945). Price 25s. T H I S book comes as something of a shock to those who are acquainted with the excellence of the colour rendering in Mr. Higham's cinematograph films. The gap between colour transparencies an...
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Notes

01 November 1946 Comments Notes RAVEN NESTING IN A ROOKERY, ON March loth, 1946, I flushed a Raven (Corvus c. cor ax) from a nest at the top of a tall pine in a conifer wood about five miles from Cardiff. In view of previous records of this species nesting in rookeries (antea, Vol. xxx...
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