Reviews

01 May 1954
Comments Reviews Report on Dorset Birds, 1951. Edited by K. B. Rooke. Now 2S. Report on Dorset Birds, 1952, Edited by K B.. Rooke. 2s. 9d. The Wildfowl and Waders of Poole Harbour. By A. J. Bull. (1953). 2S. 9d. (All reprinted from Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist, and Arch. Soc, v...
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Reviews

01 May 1954
Comments Reviews The Birds of Scotland: Their History, Distribution, and Migration, By Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh & London, 1953). £3. 3s. THIS important contribution to British ornithology has at length appeared in two...
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Notes

01 May 1954
Comments Notes 24th, 1947, Mr. D. H. Brown and I saw at Rye Harbour, Sussex, a Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps griseigena) still in almost complete summer plumage. This bird was seen at very close range and we noted, rather casually at the time, that the whole of the bill wa...
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Letters

01 April 1929
Comments Letters SIRS,--The observations conducted b y Messrs. Ingram and Salmon on the dives of the Long-tailed Duck (antea, p . 264) reopen a veryinteresting question, and one which, I think, is still some way from being satisfactorily answered. In estimating the averag...
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Notes

01 April 1929
Comments Notes IN previous notes in British Birds on egg-daubing by the Jackdaw {Colceus m. spermologus) I can find no record of first and second layings of the same bird in the same season having been found bedaubed: so the following instance may be of interest. The f...
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