Recent reports and News

01 March 1959
Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Letters

01 March 1959
Comments Letters "SUB-SONG" AND "SECONDARY SONG" SIRS,---With regard to the paper by Miss P. M. Piicher and myself on "The nature of sub-song" (antea, vol. li, pp. 509-514), I very much regret to find that we were incorrect in stating that the term "sub-song" was used by ...
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Reviews

01 March 1959
Comments Reviews By JAMES C. GREENWAY, Jnr. Illustrated by D. M. REID-HENRY. (Special Publication No. 13, American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, New York, 1958). 518 pages; a coloured frontispiece and 86 ink drawings; maps and diagrams. THIS IS A DISP...
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Notes

01 March 1959
Comments Notes Display of Little Grebe.--A display by a Little Grebe (Padiceps ruficolUs) near Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorkshire, on 4th May 1957, seems to have been a form of penguin-dance (antea, vol. L, pp. 269-270) and does not appear to' be covered by the account in The ...
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Letters

01 January 1951
Comments Letters SIRS,--An annual report for the County of Suffolk is to be published, beginning with 1950, and I would be grateful if any of your readers who may have records of observations made in Suffolk in this or subsequent years would be good enough to send them to...
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Books Received

01 January 1951
Comments Editorials Flamingo City. By G. K. Yeates. (Country Life, 25/-). Birds and Men. By E M. Nicholson. (Collins, 21/-). The Sarawak Museum Journal (Vol. V, No. 2, September, 1950). ment Printing Office, Kuching, Sarawak ; $6.00 Straits). (Govern-...
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Reviews

01 January 1951
Comments Reviews Fifteenth Annual Report (1948) and Sixteenth Annual Report (1949) of the British Trust for Ornithology. Price 1/6. Obtainable from B.T.O., 91, Banbury Road, Oxford. These two reports give evidence of much useful work carried on under the auspices of the B...
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