Recent Reports and News

01 November 1960
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 November 1960
Comments Letters "Kestrel pellets at a winter roost" Sirs,--I read with interest the paper by T. A. W. Davis on his examination of pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) at winter roosts in Pembrokeshire {Brit. Birds, 53: 281-284). May I, however, make one small correcti...
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Reviews

01 November 1960
Comments Reviews St. Kilda Summer. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Hutchinson, London, 1960. 224 p a g e s ; with photographs, drawings and maps. 25 s. For 27 years after its inhabitants had been evacuated at their own request, St. Kilda was visited only infrequ...
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Reviews

01 July 1939
Comments Reviews Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, Vol. X X I , Part I. T H I S contains a very well deserved tribute to Mr. Charles Oldham, signed by a number of naturalist friends and addressed to him on the occasion of his sevent...
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Notes

01 July 1939
Comments Notes I THINK it will be of interest to record a case of bigamy in Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus), which I had under observation in England during the summer of 1938. It is well known that this species has a tendency to nest in small colonies, but I do no...
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