Notes

01 December 1963
Comments Notes my last note on the recovery of Starlings marked at Bradfield, Berkshire (Brit. Birds, VI., p. 13), twenty-five captures have to be recorded. Only two of these occurred abroad, or indeed more than five miles from the place where they were ringed, viz. :-...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 December 1963
Comments Main paper T H E following have kindly sent · in subscriptions towards t h e expenses of the Marking Scheme since the last acknowledgment was made : Messrs. A. E . Aldous, J. S. Allison, C. F . Archibald, A. BanKes, R. M. Barrington, K. O. Blyth, P. A. Buxton, t ...
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Recent Reports and News

01 November 1960
Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Letters

01 November 1960
Comments Letters "Kestrel pellets at a winter roost" Sirs,--I read with interest the paper by T. A. W. Davis on his examination of pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) at winter roosts in Pembrokeshire {Brit. Birds, 53: 281-284). May I, however, make one small correcti...
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Reviews

01 November 1960
Comments Reviews St. Kilda Summer. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Hutchinson, London, 1960. 224 p a g e s ; with photographs, drawings and maps. 25 s. For 27 years after its inhabitants had been evacuated at their own request, St. Kilda was visited only infrequ...
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News and Comment

01 December 1955
Comments News and comment Nature Conservancy's new experimental station.--Monks' Wood Experimental Station at Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire, was officially opened by Lord Hailsham on 28th October. This major research station has been specifically built for its purpose by the Natu...
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