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01 March 1965 Comments News and comment Controlled shooting at Caerlaverock.--In April 1957 the Nature Conservancy made a National Nature Reserve of Caerlaverock Merses and the adjacent tidal sand-banks, a total of some 13,500 acres in Dumfriesshire, Because this area on the north shore of the ...

Letters

01 March 1965 Comments Letters T h e absurdity of t h e t e r m 'soft parts' Sirs,--In spite of the fact that we recently published a paper entitled 'Diseases of the skin and soft parts of wild birds' (Brit. Birds, 57: 175179), we should like to suggest that the use of the term 'soft p...

Reviews

01 March 1965 Comments Reviews Birdsof the Scilly Isles. By Hilda M. Quick. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1964. 125 p a g e s ; line-drawings. 10s. fid. (paper-back); 21s, (hard-covers). This unpretentious little book is the first ever published on the birds of the Isles of Scilly. Primarily...

Notes

01 March 1965 Comments Notes Mallard's devotion to nest i n face of fire.--On 13th April 1964, while attempting to beat out a grass fire covering some 50 square yards at Ditchford gravel-pits near Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, L. York was amazed to see a female Mallard Anas platy...

Summary of foreign-ringed birds in Britain and Ireland during 1906-63

01 March 1965 Comments Main paper BY T H E E N D O F 1963 the grand total of foreign-ringed birds known to have been recovered in Great Britain and Ireland had reached 10,981 of 145 species. The accompanying table on pages 88-93 gives a breakdown of the species totals into countries of or...

British bird photographers. 4. Walter E. Higham

01 March 1965 Comments Main paper seems to produce one outstanding bird-photographer and there can be no doubt that from the mid-1920's Walter Higham was in a class on his own. He was born at St. Anne's-on-Sea, Lancashire, in 1900 and began to dabble in photography on being given a box ca...

The New Dictionary

01 March 1965 Comments Main paper A New Dictionary of Birds. Edited by Sir A. Landsborough Thomson. Nelson, London, 1964. 928 pages; 16 coloured and 48 monochrome plates. £5 5s. ' S O M E BOOKS', we were all told long ago, 'are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to b...

Organo-chlorine residues in some and corvid eggs from northern Britain

01 March 1965 Comments Main paper A N A L Y s i s o F E G (; s of the Peregrine Fako pengrinus (Ratcliffe in press) and Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos (Lockie and Ratcliffe 1964) has shown that these species suffer widespread contamination by organochlorine pesticide residues. The Peregri...

50th Anniversary messages

01 June 1957 Comments Main paper FURTHER to mark our 50 years of continuous publication, we invited comments from a number of distinguished ornithologists, chiefly Editors of other journals, both in this country and abroad. Below, we print a selection of the replies we received.From M. l...

Editorial: The First Fifty Years

01 June 1957 Comments Editorials Witherby approached many friends and fellow-ornithologists to support a monthly magazine devoted entirely to the study of British birds, which had long been in his mind. A note in his handwriting records how, at the British Ornithologists' Club that Janu...

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