Reviews

01 March 1961
Comments Reviews Atlas of European Birds. By K. H . Voous. N e l s o n , London, i960. 284 pages; 419 maps and 355 photographs. 70s. One of the post-war developments in ornithology has been the attention given to bird distribution. There has been a growing realisation of ...
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Notes

01 March 1961
Comments Notes Beetles in the plumage of birds.--On 25 th May 1959 I picked up a freshly dead Swift (Apus apus) on the sloping concrete bank of Hilfield Park Reservoir, Hertfordshire. On examining the bird I discovered a single beetle of the species Haltka ohracearighti...
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Notes

01 October 1936
Comments Notes reference to the note on Jays (Garrulus glandarius) seen by Lt.-Col. R. N. Thompson coming in from the sea at Fairlight Cove, Sussex, on May 22nd, 1936 (quoted antea p. 80) I saw a flock of nine Jays at the same place on the morning of May 17th, 1936. Th...
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