Letters

01 August 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Is it generally known t h a t t h e Green Woodpecker eats fruit ? I watched one on October 23rd making a hearty meal off an apple a few yards from m y window, and since then many large apples picked u p plainly show t h e marks of this bird's power...
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Reviews

01 August 1963 Comments Reviews Report on the Immigration of Summer-residents in the Spring of 1912 ; also Notes on the Migratory Movements and Records received from Lighthouses and Light-vessels during the Autumn of 1911. By the Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Club (...
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Notes

01 August 1963 Comments Notes I WAS at Dungeness from October 20th to 23rd, 1913, and a great deal of migration was proceeding at the time, chiefly of flocks of finches and other birds flying south in the early morning. Between 12 noon and 1 p.m. on the 20th I saw a party of thirteen...
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Recovery of Marked Birds.

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper STABLINGS (Stumus v. vulgaris).--U513, 41526, 41539, 46201, 46284, 46310, 46314, 46363, 46375, immature, marked b y Mr. W. E . Suggitt, at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, during J u l y and August, 1913. Recovered during November and December, 1913, from near ...
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Recent reports

01 November 1955 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the thirty days from n t h September to ioth October, but it brings in some earlier reports received too late for inclusion in the previous one {Brit. B...
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News and Comment

01 November 1955 Comments News and comment Conference of European Ringing Centres.--A Conference of European Ringing Centres was held in Paris in October to discuss plans for the orientation of ringing towards certain selected species, the advisability of controlling or abandoning ringing of speci...
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Letters

01 November 1955 Comments Letters Colour-marked and leucistic Barnacle Geese Sirs,--I should be most grateful if anyone w h o sees Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) in north-west Scotland, the Hebrides or Ireland during the next two winters would look for individuals wearing North America...
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Reviews

01 November 1955 Comments Reviews The H o u s e Sparrow. By D . Summers-Smith. Collins, London, 1963. x v i + 2 6 9 p a g e s ; one colour and 32 black-and-white photographs; 36 text-figures. 25 s. The distinguished reputation of the New Naturalist series is greatly enhanced by this lates...
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