Notes

01 December 1963 Comments Notes my last note on the recovery of Starlings marked at Bradfield, Berkshire (Brit. Birds, VI., p. 13), twenty-five captures have to be recorded. Only two of these occurred abroad, or indeed more than five miles from the place where they were ringed, viz. :-...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 December 1963 Comments Main paper T H E following have kindly sent · in subscriptions towards t h e expenses of the Marking Scheme since the last acknowledgment was made : Messrs. A. E . Aldous, J. S. Allison, C. F . Archibald, A. BanKes, R. M. Barrington, K. O. Blyth, P. A. Buxton, t ...
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News and Comment

01 December 1955 Comments News and comment Nature Conservancy's new experimental station.--Monks' Wood Experimental Station at Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire, was officially opened by Lord Hailsham on 28th October. This major research station has been specifically built for its purpose by the Natu...
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Reviews

01 March 1951 Comments Reviews The Moult-migration of the Sheld-Duck. By R. A. H. Coombes (Ibis, Vol. 92, pp. 405-418). In this paper Mr. Coombes describes work on the Sheld-Duck, which he has carried on as occasion offered over a number of years and intensively throughout the summer o...
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Notes

01 March 1951 Comments Notes PARTLY as a result of a request for such information (antea, vol. xliii, p. 223) we have received a certain number of records of summer visitors spending the winter of 1949-50 in the British Isles. We have also received several records of species seen un...
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Obituary: E. W. Hendy

01 March 1951 Comments Obituaries ERNEST WILLIAM HENDY, who died in his 78th year on November 1st, 1950, brought a poet's mind and a classical training to the study of birds and wild life, and his approach bore fruit in a rare degree of insight into Nature, matched by an originality and ...
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Sheld-Duck On The Tay Estuary

01 March 1951 Comments Main paper progress has been made in unravelling the tangled life-history of Sheld-duck (Tadorna tadoma). Hoogerheide and Kraak (1942) have shown that many Western European birds assemble in July on the great tidal flats behind the islands fringing the Dutch and Ger...
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