News and comment

01 June 1973
Comments News and comment Towards realistic penalties? During the last two or three years there have been too many occasions when it has been necessary to deplore an apparent upsurge of interest in egg collecting resulting in the robbing of nests of rarer species, notab...
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Letters

01 June 1973
Comments Letters Wallcreeper on migration in the Netherlands Dr H. Lohrl's statement (Brit. Birds, 63 : 167) that the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria is non-migratory has been challenged by David Elias, H. G. Alexander, Guy Mountfort and K. D. Smith (Brit. Birds...
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Notes

01 June 1973
Comments Notes Aggression by female Buzzard at nest I was intrigued by the recent note from G. A. Williams and D. Coan on aggression by a female Buzzard Buteo buteo {Brit. Birds, 66: 31-32). O n 26th April 1944, in a large stand of mature Scots pines on a Lak...
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Studies of Sparrowhawks

01 June 1973
Comments Main paper Roy Blewitt's photographs are the first of the Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus to be published in British Birds since the long series which accompanied J. H. Owen's remarkable studies during 1916-36. They show well the uniform upperparts (plates 41a, 42b, ...
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Notice

01 March 1957
Comments Editorials Bird Observatories : new appointments. --· Mr. Kenneth Williamson, who has been Director of the Fair Isle Bird Observatory since it was established in 1948, is leaving the Observatory shortly. To replace Mr. Williamson, the Fair Is!e Bird Observatory- ...
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Letters

01 March 1957
Comments Letters T H E BIRDS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE SIRS,--Material is being- collected for a small book on the birds of Gloucestershire by H. H. Davis, C. M. Swaine and myself; we have already made considerable progress in assembling infprmation. W e would be grateful for fu...
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Reviews

01 March 1957
Comments Reviews Illustrated by PETER SCOTT (Country Life, London, 1956). Vol. I I . 232 pages, 24 colour plates, 29 maps. £6 6s. IN this second volume Mr. Delacour deals mainly with the dabbling or surface-feeding ducks of the genus Anas, in which are grouped 38 sp...
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Notes

01 March 1957
Comments Notes Ortolan Bunting in Middlesex. -- On the morning of 2nd September 1956, I was Walking along the northern bank of the River Brent where it flows into the Brent Reservoir, Middlesex, noting the many migrants which had arrived in the comparative calm after a ...
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