Letters

01 February 1963
Comments Letters SIRS,--For exactly a fortnight--May 14th to 27th, 1913-- a mysterious bird was heard calling from the marshy border of Betton Pool, near Shrewsbury. Cartwright, the keeper, an observant man, who is familiar with the notes of all the ordinary water-fowl (w...
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Reviews

01 February 1963
Comments Reviews and XI. Jahres-berichte (1910 and 1911) der Vogelwarte Rossitten. J. Thienemann. Journal fur Orniihologie, 1911, pp. 621-707 , and 1912, pp. 133-243, 431-470; and Sonderheft, 1913. T H E reports of the Rossitten station are increasing in bulk, and each o...
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Notes

01 February 1963
Comments Notes T H E following two records of marked Starlings have so far not been published except in t h e German reports :-- Vog. Rossitten No. 108 : marked in the nest on J u n e 10th, 1909, a t Lisden, near Wolmar, Livonia, Russia. Obtained about March 20th, 1911...
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Reviews

01 April 1941
Comments Reviews Lundy : Isle of Puffins. By Richard Perry. (Lindsay Drummond.) With 37 photographs by Alan Richardson. 12s. 6d. net. T H I S book is the result of observation during the five summer months of 1939 which Mr. Perry spent on Lundy, off the N. Devon coast. It...
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Notes

01 April 1941
Comments Notes THE recoveries of ringed Redwings (Turdus musicus), though still few, are of sufficient interest to bring together in a separate note. No recovery of a ringed Redwing was reported until early in 1938, although up to that time 576 had been marked. Then tw...
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Birds of Inner London

01 April 1941
Comments Main paper THESE notes for 1940 are unavoidably incomplete owing to many observers being occupied in National Service. Moreover, toward the end of the year the field of observation was much restricted for various reasons. During 1940 there was one addition to the li...
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