Reviews

01 July 1962
Comments Reviews Photographing Garden Birds. By C. H. S. Tupholme. Faber, London, 1962. 127 pages; 4 colour and 6 monochrome photographs. 18s. Some excellent suggestions are given on methods of attracting wild birds into the garden by establishing various trees, shrubs an...
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Notes

01 July 1962
Comments Notes Water Rail killing Little Stint and Eel.--With reference to the recent notes on Water Rails (Rallus aquaticus) killing a Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) and other small Passerines {Brit. Birds, 55: 132-133 and 165), I should like to record that on 4th Sept...
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Reviews

01 February 1958
Comments Reviews p a g e s ; coloured frontispiece by Roland Green; 12 photographic plates. (Witherby, London, 1957). 21s. INTENDED to provide detailed practical information for keepers, and would-be keepers, of waterfowl, this small book fulfils its aims admirably. A wor...
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Notes

01 February 1958
Comments Notes Leach's Petrels in Shetland.--On 6th August 1957, Leach's Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) were located over the boulderstrewn slopes of The Noup, Foula, Shetland. One was caught and at the same time two others could be heard calling- in flight. One was a...
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