News and comments

01 May 1955
Comments News and comment Prize-winning films.--The B.B.C. and the Council for Nature recently announced the results of their jointly sponsored natural history film competition for amateurs. The joint winners of the £700 prize in the main class for a film suitable for televi...
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Reviews

01 May 1955
Comments Reviews The Migrations of Birds. By Jean Dorst. Translated from the French by Constance D . Sherman. Heinemann, London, 1962. x i v + 4 7 6 pages; 131 figures in the text. 50s. The amateur migration enthusiast often longs for a comprehensive, readable book in Eng...
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Notes

01 May 1955
Comments Notes Exceptional passage of Cory's Shearwaters off Co. Cork.--During the late afternoon of 10th August 1962 a routine sea-watch from a hundred feet above sea level at Pointanbullig, one of the southern points of Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, revealed an unusual...
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Requests for information

01 May 1955
Comments Editorials in 1954/55.--It is evident from reports we have received and from preliminary enquiries made by Mr. J, A. G. Barnes, that some summer visitors, notably terns and Hirundines but also other species as well, delayed their departure from the British Isles in ...
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Letters

01 May 1955
Comments Letters A M E R I C A N L A N D - B I R D S IN W E S T E R N E U R O P E SIRS,---I should like to offer brief comments on the fine paper on "American land birds in western E u r o p e " in the January issue (ante a, pp. 1-14). It seems to me that it may overstate...
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Reviews

01 May 1955
Comments Reviews (Collins, London, 1955). xvi and 172 pages. 48 plates (40 in colour). 21s. T H I S companion volume to the same author's Pocket Guide to British Birds is arranged on a similar system, based on division of all species first according to an arbitrary group...
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