Report on bird ringing for 1951

01 August 1952 Comments Main paper Bird-Ringing Committee, British Trust for Ornithology. This is the fifteenth r e p o r t ! issued on behalf of the Committee, continuing; the earlier sequence under the title " T h e British Birds Marking S c h e m e . " It is in the form instituted last ...
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Notes

01 August 1952 Comments Notes Rogers informs us that on April i s t , 1950, he watched a Starling {Sturnus vulgaris) attacking a Chrysanthemum. Leaves were torn off, pecked into shreds and left on the ground, b u t were later carried off with other nesting material. Mr. R. G. Finnis r...
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Letters

01 August 1952 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Ibis for April 1953 will include a group of papers on Visible Migration (particularly in passerine birds) as observed in various countries. The newly-formed Sub-committee on Visible Migration of the British Trust for Ornithology (see below) fee...
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Fair Isle bird observatory

01 February 1950 Comments Main paper Compiled by KENNETH WILLIAMSON (Director). The following notes have been selected from the Fair Isle Bird Observatory " Notes on Species " record-book as much for their importance in amplifying the information contained in The Handbook of British Birds a...
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Reviews

01 February 1950 Comments Reviews Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. Committee for Ornithology Reports for 1947 and 1948. Edited by Ralph Chislett. (Reprinted from The Naturalist, 1948, pp. 51-74, and 1949, 51-75.) T H E S E reports as usual contain much valuable material. Up to four Gannets w...
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Notes

01 February 1950 Comments Notes DURING a visit to Thanet in the autumn of 1947, I was enabled, through the kindness of Mrs. Powell-Cotton, to examine the small collection of locally-taken bird-skins in the above museum. These were made readily available to me by the present Curator, Mr...
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