Recent reports and news

01 June 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' judgement alone, from sources generallyfound to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Notes

01 June 1960
Comments Notes Piracy by GadwalL--On 30th December 1959, near Cley, Norfolk, we watched four Gadwall (Anas strepera) worrying a drake Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina), apparently with the aim of robbing it of its food. They followed it very closely and whenever it div...
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Some notes on the Rufous Warbler

01 June 1960
Comments Main paper T H I S P A P E R is based primarily on observations made from May to October 1958 at Khanaqin in eastern Iraq, a border town on the banks of the Alwand River in the foothills of the Jebel Hamrin Mountains, about 90 miles north-east of Baghdad. When I arr...
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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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Notes

01 January 1958
Comments Notes Mr. Stephen Brady brought into the Bolton Museum a Snipe (Capella gallinago) which he had picked up dead near Rumworth Reservoir, Bolton, Lancashire. The bird was very stale, but I managed to preserve it since at first glance it was extremely dark. Subseq...
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