The Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962
Comments Open Access CONTENTS Introduction Definition of the Hastings Rarities Peculiarities of the pattern Comparison with current experience Observers and collectors Prices and collections Possibilities of cool deception Publication and correspondenceO F T H E 520 F O E ...
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Reviews

01 September 1961
Comments Reviews The Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh. By H . Albert Hochbaum. Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, U.S.A., 1959 (second edition). 207 pages; 18 photographs. $4.50. Originally published towards the end of the 1939-45 war, this was the first of a series of authorita...
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Notes

01 September 1961
Comments Notes Manx Shearwater d i g g i n g by daylight.--At about 2.30 p.m. on 15th May 1961, I was walking in bright sunlight on a sloping cliff on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, when I heard a Manx Shearwater (Procellaria puffinus) calling from its burrow. Kneeling down w...
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