Recent Reports and News

01 August 1960
Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to he reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Reviews

01 August 1960
Comments Reviews The Bird in the Hand. By R. K. Cornwallis and A. E. Smith. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, i960. 69 pages. 4s. (Obtainable from the B.T.O., 2 King Edward Street, Oxford, at 4s. 6d. including postage.) At last the bird-ringer has available the type ...
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Notes

01 August 1960
Comments Notes Attempted coition by Little Stints on autumn passage.--At Radipole Lake, Weymouth, Dorset, on 4th October 1957, I became very interested in the behaviour of two Little Stints (Calidris minutd). One was making short runs or low level flights across a shall...
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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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