News and comment

01 November 1966 Comments News and comment World conference of the I.C.B.P.--The 14th world conference of the International Council for Bird Preservation, held in Cambridge from n t h to 15th July 1966, was attended by representatives from 31 different countries. A wide range of topics were discus...
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Letters

01 November 1966 Comments Letters Fault-bars as a means of ageing birds Sirs,---Last year I read a letter by C. J. Mead on the ageing of birds by means of fault-bars (Brit. Birds, 58: 227-228), in which he referred to the work of W. E. Glegg who noted fault-bars on the tails of 737 bird s...
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Reviews

01 November 1966 Comments Reviews Population Studies of Birds. By David Lack. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1966. 341 pages; 1 photographic plate; many textfigures. 63s. Dr. Lack's first book on animal populations, The Natural Regulation of Animal Numbers (1954), embraced all animals, but most...
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Errata

01 December 1953 Comments Editorials VOL. XLVI. Line 13 from bottom, for "Savidge" read "Savage". Line 12 from bottom, for "extirpation" read "extirpation". Line 27 from bottom, for "cinerea" read "brachydactyla". Line 19, for "the first record" read "the second record". Line 17, for " E x e...
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