Recent reports and news

01 January 1961
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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Reviews

01 January 1961
Comments Reviews T h e Eleventh Annual Report of the Wildfowl Trust. Edited by H u g h Boyd and Peter Scott. Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, i960. 168 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 10s. The Wildfowl Trust's Annual Report contains, as usual, a varied assortment of news of the collect...
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Notes

01 January 1961
Comments Notes Little Shearwater in Norfolk.--On ist May i960 we found a freshly dead shearwater on the beach between Cley and Blakeney Point, Norfolk. It was in good condition but for the left carpal joint, which was bare to the bone. The bird was black above and white...
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Notes

01 March 1943
Comments Notes WITH reference to Mr. J. M. B. Brown's remarks on the breeding of the Pied Flycatcher in the Forest of Dean (antea, p. 179), it may be of interest to note that In 1935 I was informed by Mr. R. Hendrie, a student at the School of Forestry, Parkend, that h...
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Birds of Inner London

01 March 1943
Comments Main paper CARMICHAEL LOW DURING the period under review (1942) there have been two new records for Inner London, viz. the Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides) and the Waxwing (Bombycüla g. garrulus). Of other interesting occurrences the invasion of the City by Black...
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