Recent reports and News

01 May 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers* names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Letters

01 May 1959 Comments Letters T H E I N F L U X O F P H A L A R O P E S IN A U T U M N 1957 S I R S , -- I wish to correct two errors which unfortunately appeared in the paper on the above subject by myself and Bernard King (antea, p p . 33-42). In the introduction on page 33 the reco...
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Reviews

01 May 1959 Comments Reviews London, 1959). 244 pages; 17 photographic plates (one in colour) and 26 drawings. 25s. BASED mainly on the author's unique and fascinating, though limited, observations on a few corvine birds anting with burning materials, this is the first book to be dev...
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Notes

01 May 1959 Comments Notes a visit to North Rona, Scotland, on 3rd June 1958, I found a Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) incubating three eggs of the Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus). T h e nest was that of the gull and was built among rocks on comparatively flat ground on the Fi...
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The Sexual Displays of Swallows

01 May 1941 Comments Main paper THE quantitative aspects of the reproduction of the Swallow (Hirundo r. rustica) have been intensively studied in the enquiries of the British Trust for Ornithology (antea, Vol. XXIX, pp. 3-21, Vol. XXX, pp. 98-116) and in many other surveys; but there re...
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Nest-Sanitation

01 May 1941 Comments Main paper Faeces carried; no data for first few days ; at a late stage young defaecate from the opening ; if deposited on " doorstep " they are carried; if they fall clear they are left, even if conspicuous (B.H.R., R.G.A., A.H.M.C). [Voided at entrance of nest and...
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Notes

01 May 1941 Comments Notes WHEN reading Mr. D. Lack's article on the Chaffinch (antea, p. 216), I was particularly interested in the paragraph on " female song." Just over a year ago (early in March, 1940) I heard at Brent Park, Hendon, a bird singing, which I did not recognize at...
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