Letters

01 May 1971
Comments Letters Feather wear in Guillemots In view of R. J. Kennedy's note on feather wear in Guillemots Uria aalge (Brit. Birds, 63: 34-36) and the follow-up in this issue (pages 229-230), I should like to point out that a good many of the auks involved in the disaster ...
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Notes

01 May 1971
Comments Notes Display-flight of Sparrowhawks I was interested in the note by R. A. Hume and P. L. Garvey on the possible display-flight of four Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus on 25th January 1970 (Brit Birds, 63: 132). The unusual features were the number involved and th...
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Recent reports

01 May 1971
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The last summary (Brit, Birds, 64: 135-136) covered the rarer species and most of the unseasonal summer visitors in December 1970 and January 1971. This one deals with the remaining reports in...
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News and Comment

01 May 1971
Comments News and comment Birds of Estuaries Enquiry This joint project of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was outlined in 'News and comment' last year (Brit. Birds, 63: 183). The first report of the pilot survey, covering the p...
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Letters

01 November 1956
Comments Letters T H E R E A C T I O N S O F MAN A N D B I R D T O A S C O R P I O N S I R S , -- I n his letter on " T h e effects of model scorpion and lizard on a bird t a b l e " (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 556-557), Col. R. Meinertzhagen suggested that the fear-reaction...
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Reviews

01 November 1956
Comments Reviews By DAVID LACK (Methuen, London, 1956). 239 p a g e s ; 10 half-tone plates; 24 text illustrations. 21s. N O T the least striking feature of that astonishing building, the University Museum of Science at Oxford, is the tower; for behind the ventilator sha...
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Notes

01 November 1956
Comments Notes of Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius), each containing a clutch of four e g g s , were found at a gravel-pit in the Trent Valley in 1956; the first nest was discovered by A. Teather on 24th June, the second was confirmed by W . Priestley on 2nd July...
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