Letters

01 August 1968 Comments Letters Waxwing omission Sirs,--Owing to a regrettable oversight, our paper on 'Waxwings in Britain and Europe during 1965/66' (Brit. Birds, 6 1 : 97-118) failed to acknowledge the work of T. Ennis and the Northern Ireland Ornithologists' Club in sending us recor...
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Recent reports

01 August 1968 Comments News and comment (These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary covers June 1968 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. A few June reports were mentioned last month {Brit. Birds, 6 1 : 527-528) where they were particula...
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News and comments

01 August 1968 Comments News and comment Industrial threats to the south-west.--The Western Morning News for 17th and 23rd May contained news of important industrial proposals likely to mar natural amenities in Devon and Cornwall. These proposals include examinations of six possible sites for po...
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Notes

01 August 1968 Comments Notes Curlew's nest with seven eggs.--In April and May 1968 a pair of Curlews Nuwemus arquata were seen on at least six occasions by Mrs. R. Barnes and ourselves at a traditional breeding site in a marshy field near Purton, Wiltshire. On n t h May I.W.Y. flushe...
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Dowitcher identification

01 August 1968 Comments Main paper During a long argument over the specific identity of a dowitcher Ldmnodromus sp. that frequented the Hayle estuary, Cornwall, from 30th October 1966 to 22nd April 1967 and was even trapped on one occasion, many observers found themselves confused by the i...
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Letter

01 October 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,--In connexion with t h e discussion of this subject (antea, pp. 248-50) it is perhaps worth mentioning t h a t in September, 1911, I watched quantities of Great Shearwaters in t h e Bay of Biscay on a voyage to Bordeaux on the 6th, and on the return...
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Reviews

01 October 1939 Comments Reviews South-Eastern Bird Report, 1938. Edited by Ralph Whitlock. (R, Whitlock, Pitton, Salisbury.) 3s, 6d. THIS Report is now published under the auspices of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies and a committee of management under the chairmanship of...
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Notes

01 October 1939 Comments Notes FOR some years a pair of Grey Wagtails (Motacilla c. cinerea) have nested in and round a house in Ireland choosing as sites the window ledges of upstairs windows or the thick stems of a Virginian creeper, the nest being either built along a branch or in ...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 October 1939 Comments Main paper Hon. Sec. Bird-Ringing Committee, British Trust for Ornithology. OWING to the increasing number of recoveries, t h e Committee has decided to omit from the published lists, all those within ten miles of the place of ringing, in t h e case of those specie...
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