News and comment

01 August 1967
Comments News and comment Wildfowl counts in Northern Ireland.--One of the first tasks to be tackled by the Northern Ireland Ornithologists" Club when it was formed in October 1964 was the planning of a series of wildfowl counts in the Lough Neagh basin, along the lines of those o...
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Letters

01 August 1967
Comments Letters Red-headed Buntings in Britain and Ireland Sirs,--D. I. M. Wallace's recent review of 'Birds in Ireland during 1963-65' (Brit Birds, 60: 205-213) refers to the sixth and seventh Irish records of the Red-headed Bunting Emberi^a bruniceps in Co. Cork in Jun...
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Notes

01 August 1967
Comments Notes Hirundines taking winged insects from the surface of the sea.--With reference to another note of mine on Swallows Hirundo rustica taking winged insects from the surface of the sea off Tresco, Isles of Scilly, in September 1958 {Brit. Birds, 5 3: 200), I s...
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News and comment

01 March 1965
Comments News and comment Controlled shooting at Caerlaverock.--In April 1957 the Nature Conservancy made a National Nature Reserve of Caerlaverock Merses and the adjacent tidal sand-banks, a total of some 13,500 acres in Dumfriesshire, Because this area on the north shore of the ...
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Letters

01 March 1965
Comments Letters T h e absurdity of t h e t e r m 'soft parts' Sirs,--In spite of the fact that we recently published a paper entitled 'Diseases of the skin and soft parts of wild birds' (Brit. Birds, 57: 175179), we should like to suggest that the use of the term 'soft p...
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Reviews

01 March 1965
Comments Reviews Birdsof the Scilly Isles. By Hilda M. Quick. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1964. 125 p a g e s ; line-drawings. 10s. fid. (paper-back); 21s, (hard-covers). This unpretentious little book is the first ever published on the birds of the Isles of Scilly. Primarily...
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Notes

01 March 1965
Comments Notes Mallard's devotion to nest i n face of fire.--On 13th April 1964, while attempting to beat out a grass fire covering some 50 square yards at Ditchford gravel-pits near Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, L. York was amazed to see a female Mallard Anas platy...
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