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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Recent reports and news

01 April 1958 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 writer's judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted in case a report ...
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Request for information

01 April 1958 Comments Editorials THE 1957 IRRUPTIONS OF TITS A N D OTHER SPECIES : INTERIM REPORT In view of the great interest in the irruptions of tits (Parus spp.) and certain other birds in the autumn of 1957 (antea, p. 130; and vol. L, pp. 495 and 542), we asked the organizers of th...
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Letters

01 April 1958 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I should be most grateful if anyone who has any specimens of flatflies (Hippoboscidae), taken from birds, would lend or give them to me for examination connected with my research at the D e p a r t m e n t of Zoology, University of Hull, Yor...
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