News and comments

01 March 1968 Comments News and comment Maritime oil pollution.--The Field Studies Council has announced two three-year research programmes on the biology of oil pollution, including the associated use of detergents and emulsifiers. One project will be concerned with intertidal fauna; the other...
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Letters

01 March 1968 Comments Letters The*wing-tip patterns of gulls Sirs,--Some years ago I saw a young Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalusflyby in Pagham Harbour, Sussex. The view was brief, but I had been watching the species in Italy not long before, and recognised the wing-pattern: t...
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Reviews

01 March 1968 Comments Reviews The Natural History of Europe. By Harry Garms. Illustrated by Wilhelm Eigener. Edited by A. Melderis (plants) and Joyce Pope (animals). Paul Hamlyn, London, 1967. i x + 3 5 8 pages with 900 illustrations. 35s. This bulky book--11 by 7J inches in size, i f...
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Notes

01 March 1968 Comments Notes Hobbies persistently preying on Starling roost.--During the autumns of 1964-66 we often saw Hobbies Falco subbuteo at a roost of 100-120,000 Starlings Stttrnus vulgaris in five acres of woodland in Wiltshire. In 1964 two were seen on five occasions betwee...
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Recent reports

01 March 1968 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the month of January 1968, but also includes some relevant records for December 1967 and February 1968.The influx of Long-tailed Ducks Clangula byemalis...
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Reviews

01 November 1947 Comments Reviews British Game. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. (The New Naturalist series, Collins, London, 1946). Price 16s. This is the first of the New Naturalist series to be concerned primarily with birds. I t is not exclusively so concerned because mammals are also inclu...
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Notes

01 November 1947 Comments Notes ON a fine morning in April, 1946, a number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula), Song-Thrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) and Starlings (Siurnus v. vulgaris) were watched while feeding on a large lawn of King's College, Cambridge. The Starlings spent most of the...
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