Letters

01 August 1954
Comments Letters SIRS,--A little confusion was caused on the Isle of May in 1953 by people claiming to assign Bluethroats (Luscinia svecica) to the White-spotted race (L. s. cyanecula) on the strength of wing-measurements and the relative lengths of the primaries. They we...
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Reviews

01 August 1954
Comments Reviews Birds (in Hampshire, 1952). By Edwin Cohen. From Proc. Hampshire Field Club and Arch. Soc, vol. xviii, pt. 2 (1953). HAMPSHIRE is beyond question the weakest point in south coast ornithology, and, although Mr. Edwin Cohen in these two brief annotated list...
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Reviews

01 August 1954
Comments Reviews The Heron. By Frank A. Lowe. (Collins, London, 1954). 18s. FROM the time of the Early Egyptians, as the author tells us, the Heron has been referred to in literature and represented in art. As a figure in mythology, an item of food usually in the luxury c...
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Notes

01 August 1954
Comments Notes Mr. Gord on Greeves found the nest of a large bird of prey on a sea-cliff in County Antrim. At first he thought it was the nest of a Buzzard (Buteo buteo) but the young seemed very large, as did one of the parents which appeared only in the distance. W h ...
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Notes

01 April 1946
Comments Notes IN the autumn of 1945 I have noticed Jackdaws (Corvus monedula spermologus) frequenting two holes in different beeches close together, at Westerham, Kent, but have been unable to prove definitely that they were breeding. A Jackdaw was seen to leave one h...
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