Reviews

01 October 1953
Comments Reviews Birds of the Gauntlet. By H. von Michaelis. (Hutchinson, London, 1952). 84s. The author is a deservedly successful artist and writer, portraying in this book birds which he has known at close quarters. All, except a European Kestrel, are South African spe...
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Letters

01 March 1948
Comments Letters SIRS,--In Vol. xl, p. 245, you say t h a t the taking of food from the water b y Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) has apparently not been "previously recorded in our ornithological literature." I have recently had occasion t o search t h e literature for ...
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Notes

01 March 1948
Comments Notes ON July 19th, 1947, whilst cycling near Heytesbury, Wiltshire, I heard some Magpies (P. p. pica) chattering, as though alarmed, in a hawthorn not far from the road. I turned and was just in time to see a Carrion Crow (Corvus c. corone) strike a Magpie to...
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