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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Recent reports and news

01 June 1958
Comments News and comment The items here are largelv unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from soiirccs generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of s...
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Letters

01 June 1958
Comments Letters S I R S , -- U n d e r the above title (anlea, vol. L, p p . 432-434), R. Hewson has usefully drawn attention to the aerobatics-- familiar in individuals--that are sometimes performed by flocks of Ravens (Corvus corax) and has discussed questions suggeste...
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Reviews

01 June 1958
Comments Reviews day ·& Co., New York, 1949--first edition 1946--sponsored by the National Audubon Society). $3.95. A U D U B O N W A T E R B I R D G U I D E (Water, game and large land birds of eastern and central North America from southern Texas to central Greenland...
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Notes

01 June 1958
Comments Notes " R e c e n t reports and n e w s " section in our March number (antea, p . 132), brief mention was made of the fact that a number of North American Ruddy Ducks (Oxyura jamaicensis) had escaped from the Wildfowl Trust collection at Slimbridge, Gloucesters...
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