Notes

01 July 1958
Comments Notes Magpie burying and recovering food.--With reference to the note by Derek Goodwin on " J a y s and Carrion Crows recovering hidden food" (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 181-183) and other comparable observations, a note on this habit in the Magpie (Pica pica) may...
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Recent reports and news

01 July 1958
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 be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of s...
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Reviews

01 July 1958
Comments Reviews By E. A. R. ENNION. (Penguin Books, "Puffin Picture B o o k s " , Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1958). 31 p a g e s ; coloured and black-and-white illustrations by the author. 3s. 6d. Bird Study in a Garden has been written with the intent of encouraging- yo...
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Recent reports and news

01 January 1958
Comments News and comment By I. J. FERGUSON-LEES In order to give our readers as up-to-date as possible a picture of recent reports of rare birds, of interesting movements and "invasions", and of other news of general interest, it has been decided to try, as an experiment, a month...
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Request for information

01 January 1958
Comments Editorials The Scientific Advisory Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology recently decided that publicity should be given in Bird Study, the quarterly journal of the B.T.O., to analyses which will be the subject of future papers in British Birds. We are ple...
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Reviews

01 January 1958
Comments Reviews Illustrated by PETER SCOTT. (Collins, London, 1957). 192 p a g e s ; many black-and-white drawings. 21s. T H I S IS a delightful book; its author is both an expert wildfowler and a keen ornithologist, and his writings prove that it is possible to combine ...
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