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Letters

01 November 1956 Comments Letters T H E R E A C T I O N S O F MAN A N D B I R D T O A S C O R P I O N S I R S , -- I n his letter on " T h e effects of model scorpion and lizard on a bird t a b l e " (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 556-557), Col. R. Meinertzhagen suggested that the fear-reaction...

Reviews

01 November 1956 Comments Reviews By DAVID LACK (Methuen, London, 1956). 239 p a g e s ; 10 half-tone plates; 24 text illustrations. 21s. N O T the least striking feature of that astonishing building, the University Museum of Science at Oxford, is the tower; for behind the ventilator sha...

Notes

01 November 1956 Comments Notes of Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius), each containing a clutch of four e g g s , were found at a gravel-pit in the Trent Valley in 1956; the first nest was discovered by A. Teather on 24th June, the second was confirmed by W . Priestley on 2nd July...

British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

01 November 1956 Comments Main paper [This list continues from that published in 1952 (anted, vol. xlv, pp. 458-465), but is in the revised form now internationally adopted. There are a number of records of particular interest. The Herons include a Swedish bird 15J years old, recovered in Ir...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXV. Crane

01 November 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 57-64) THOUGH bearing a certain resemblance t o herons, storks and other long-legged marsh birds, cranes a r e very different creatures in a number of ways and normally are easily separated: on the ground, they a r e given a rather different silho...

Feather-Eating and Pellet-Formation in the Great Crested Grebe

01 November 1956 Comments Main paper IN a recent account (Simmons, 1955) of an eight-year study on the life-history of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus), the habit of eating feathers was briefly reviewed in the light of new anatomical information collected by Hanzak (1952) in Czec...

Autumn Migration on the Kintyre Peninsula

01 November 1956 Comments Main paper T H E Kintyre peninsula forms a tongue of land in western Argyll, Scotland, seldom more than ten miles across and extending for some fifty miles southward from Lochgilphead and the Crinan canal. Fig. i shows that its geographical relations are particularl...

The index of heron population

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper The number of heronries on which reports for 1949 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 162, or 16 more than in the previous year. Of these 117 were in England, 9 in Wales, 17 in Scotland and 19 in Ireland. We are indebted to 79 informants of who...

The Behaviour Of Corn-Crakes

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper MASON DURING the past few years the writer, with the help of friends, has carried out a series of experiments with Corn-Crakes {Crex crex) The experiments consist in calling up Corn-Crakes to a stuffed dummy by imitating the " crake-crake " song with a p...

On The Courtship And Social Displays Of Three Species Of Auk

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper CONDER DURING the summer of 1947 I had opportunities of watching the breeding displays of the Razorbill (Aha torda), the Guillemot (Una aalge), and the Puffin (Fratercula arctica) on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire. The displays of the three species occurred chi...

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