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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Letters

01 November 1936 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have read Mr. A. W . Boyd's " Report on t h e Swallow Enquiry, 1935 " {antea, pp. 98/116) with much interest. I n Dumfriesshire, there is a belief t h a t t h e presence of Swallows i n a cow-byre ensures good luck. I t is certainly curious...
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Notes

01 November 1936 Comments Notes ON September 5th, 1936, a Bunting was seen by several observers running about rapidly among heather clumps on Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire. Although a sketch was made of the bird, which was very tame, no definite identification was arrived at. It was s...
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Notes

01 June 1933 Comments Notes O N April 8th, 1933, the Blackbird which sings from the apex of our cottage on Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, was displaced by a small finch whose song I have never heard before. It was linnet-like, but much fainter, and I put down the notes " tu-tee, t...
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