Letters

01 May 1959
Comments Letters T H E I N F L U X O F P H A L A R O P E S IN A U T U M N 1957 S I R S , -- I wish to correct two errors which unfortunately appeared in the paper on the above subject by myself and Bernard King (antea, p p . 33-42). In the introduction on page 33 the reco...
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Notes

01 April 1958
Comments Notes Fish-hook in Heron's pellet.--In March 1956 Tom Schutte brought me the pellet of a Heron (Ardea cinerea) that he had found on the 4th of that month, by the River Beane at Waterford, Hertfordshire. It was composed almost entirely of fur (? W a t e r Vole, ...
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Notes

01 April 1955
Comments Notes in The Handbook to the behaviour of flocks of Coot (Fulica atra) when attacked by birds of prey. On n t h January 1953, at Cannock Reservoir, Staffordshire, I witnessed the same behaviour when a Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) dived over a scattered flock...
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