Errata

01 December 1953
Comments Editorials VOL. XLVI. Line 13 from bottom, for "Savidge" read "Savage". Line 12 from bottom, for "extirpation" read "extirpation". Line 27 from bottom, for "cinerea" read "brachydactyla". Line 19, for "the first record" read "the second record". Line 17, for " E x e...
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Letter

01 December 1953
Comments Letters SIRS,--Beginning with 1953 an annual report for the county of Norfolk is to be published jointly by the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society and the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust and I would be grateful if any of your readers who have records of observat...
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Reviews

01 December 1953
Comments Reviews The Birds of the British Isles. By D. A. Bannerman and G. E. Lodge. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1953.) Vol. I. 45s. Tins work was conceived as a vehicle to make available a complete range of Mr. Lodge's fine paintings. Undoubtedly his most widely known wor...
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Notes

01 December 1953
Comments Notes Cley, Norfolk, Mr. and Mrs. H. P . Medhurst and R.A.R. saw a very small tawny heron, little larger than a Moorhen (Gcdlinula chloropus), and with dark primaries and secondaries, rise out of a narrow belt of reeds beside the bank and fly lightly for a few ...
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Letters

01 February 1938
Comments Letters SIRS,--In reply to Mr. Lockley's letter under this heading (antea, pp. 278-9), I had two main points t o make in m y report on Skokholm Island, namely :-- 1. That owing t o its depredations on Storm-Petrels, the Little Owl should, if possible, be prevente...
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Notes

01 February 1938
Comments Notes ON April 15th, 1937, a male Bullfinch which appeared to be much larger than the British Bullfinch (Pyrrhula p. pileata) was seen moving about in some trees on Holy Island. Later in the day this bird was shot by a resident on the island and was sent in to...
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Recovery of marked birds

01 February 1938
Comments Main paper Rawdon (Yorks), 24.4.37, by Bramhope (Yorks), 15.7.37. C. Wontner-Smith. Ditto 4-S-37- Allerton (Yorks), 13.8.37. Stodmarsh (Kent), 16.4.33, by Where ringed, --.9.37. Oxford Orn. Soc. R I N G E D AS FULL-GROWN. Gt. Budworth (Ches), 17.7.35, Acton Bridge ...
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