Letters

01 February 1957
Comments Letters ICELAND R E D W I N G S WINTERING SIRS,--October 1956 saw an unparalleled " i n v a s i o n " of Iceland Redwings (Turdus musicus coburni) through Fair Isle, big movements occurring on the i2th, i8th-2oth and 2zLth-25th with westerly weather. Of 333 Redwi...
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Reviews

01 February 1957
Comments Reviews By K. E. L. SIMMONS. Reprinted (1956) from Ävicultural Magazine, vol. 61, pp. 3-13, 93-102, 131-146, 181-201, 235-253, 294-316. Obtainable from A. A. Prestwich, 61 Chase Road, London, N.14. Price 5s. M R . SIMMONS'S paper is really a miniature monogr...
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Notes

01 February 1957
Comments Notes Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ü1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy...
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News and Comment

01 April 1955
Comments News and comment A new edition of the Field Guide.--Many bird-watchers find it difficult to remember the time when A. Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, by Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort and P. A. D . Hollom, was not as essential a part of their equipment...
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Reviews

01 April 1955
Comments Reviews T h e P o p u l a r H a n d b o o k of British Birds. By P . A. D . H o l l o m . 3rd (revised) edition. Witherby, L o n d o n , 1962. xxiii-f-511 p a g e s ; 151 plates. 48s. When The Popular Handbook first appeared in 1952, it made available to a far wi...
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Notes

01 April 1955
Comments Notes Ringed Plover breeding on cliff top,--In mid-June 1962 D . Carr, R, M. Lockley and I found a pair of Ringed Plovers {Charadrim hiaiicula) breeding on top of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire, within a hundred yards of the cliff edge. The site was a fairly l...
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Peregrines and homing pigeons

01 April 1955
Comments Main paper I N A L L C O U N T R I E S where there are still Peregrines {Falcoperegrinus), and where pigeon-racing is widely practised by different sections of the community, there is generally a marked antagonism between those interested in birds of prey and their ...
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