Letters

01 February 1957
Comments Letters ICELAND R E D W I N G S WINTERING SIRS,--October 1956 saw an unparalleled " i n v a s i o n " of Iceland Redwings (Turdus musicus coburni) through Fair Isle, big movements occurring on the i2th, i8th-2oth and 2zLth-25th with westerly weather. Of 333 Redwi...
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Reviews

01 February 1957
Comments Reviews By K. E. L. SIMMONS. Reprinted (1956) from Ävicultural Magazine, vol. 61, pp. 3-13, 93-102, 131-146, 181-201, 235-253, 294-316. Obtainable from A. A. Prestwich, 61 Chase Road, London, N.14. Price 5s. M R . SIMMONS'S paper is really a miniature monogr...
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Notes

01 February 1957
Comments Notes Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ü1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy...
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Letters

01 January 1957
Comments Letters " ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE AND BIRD F L I G H T " S I R S , -- I n his letter on the above subject (antea, vol. xlviii, p p . 557-559) I. C. T . Nisbet puts forward an ingenious theory of wind-determination by feel. While agreeing that it is possible, I als...
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Reviews

01 January 1957
Comments Reviews By JAMES FISHER (Pelican Books, London, 1955). 3s. 6d. THIS is the third in an excellent series eventually to total four volumes covering all but the rarer blrds on the British Ost. The birds included faere are the rails, game-birds, and larger perching ...
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Notes

01 January 1957
Comments Notes Group-display of Smews.--On 5th February 1956, at Swithland Reservoir, Leicestershire, I watched a form of social display in a group of Smews (Mergus albellus) consisting of three males and two females, for a period of about half an hour, just before dusk...
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