News and comment

01 May 1965 Comments News and comment Undiminished threat to birds of prey.--The Joint Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on Toxic Chemicals is still alarmed by the serious threat to several of Britain's birds of prey from sheep di...
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Letters

01 May 1965 Comments Letters The first nesting of Spur-winged Plovers in Greece Sirs,--In his recent article on the Spur-winged Plover Hoplopterus spinosus {Brit. Birds, 58: 47-51), I. J. Ferguson-Lees stated that the breeding of this species in Europe as a whole and in Greece in par...
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Reviews

01 May 1965 Comments Reviews Bir ds of Prey of the World. By Mary Louise Grossman and John Hamlet. Photographs by Shelly Grossman. Cassell, London, 1965. 496 pages; 70 colour and 283 monochrome photographs; numerous line drawings including 644 flight silhouettes and 422 range maps; c...
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