News and comment

01 February 1966
Comments News and comment Ornithological news from the U.S.S.R.--The 4th All-Union Ornithological Conference, held in the beautiful central Asian city of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R., from 1st to 7th September 1965, was attended by 263 delegates, three of whom came from western ...
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Letters

01 February 1966
Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...
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Reviews

01 February 1966
Comments Reviews Fait Isle and its Birds. By Kenneth Williamson. With 'A List of the Birds of Fair Isle' by Peter Davis. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1965. xvi+311 pages; 27 photographs (16 plates); 17 text-figures and maps. 30s. Over 60 years ago Dr. William Eagl...
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Notes

01 February 1966
Comments Notes Swifts roosting o n poles.---At dusk on 4th September 1965, near the field station on Walney Island, Lancashire, J. Wilson, B. Sutton and I saw a Swift Apus apus repeatedly fly at a telegraph pole and then even tually land on it. It apparently settled the...
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Reviews

01 October 1954
Comments Reviews Cheltenham and District Naturalists' Society. Report for 1951-1952. Obtainable from L. W. Hayward, 40 High Street, Prestbury, Cheltenham. 2s. 6d. WHILE we welcome this first printed bird report from Cheltenham for 1951 and 1952 we must look forward to far...
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Notes

01 October 1954
Comments Notes and David Lack have given data showing that the times of arrival of greatest numbers of certain Passerines at the Kentish Knock Lightship and on the S.E. coast of England strongly suggest that they left the Continental coast at dawn (antea, vol. xlvi, pp....
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