Reviews

01 May 1954
Comments Reviews Report on Dorset Birds, 1951. Edited by K. B. Rooke. Now 2S. Report on Dorset Birds, 1952, Edited by K B.. Rooke. 2s. 9d. The Wildfowl and Waders of Poole Harbour. By A. J. Bull. (1953). 2S. 9d. (All reprinted from Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist, and Arch. Soc, v...
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Reviews

01 May 1954
Comments Reviews The Birds of Scotland: Their History, Distribution, and Migration, By Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh & London, 1953). £3. 3s. THIS important contribution to British ornithology has at length appeared in two...
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Notes

01 May 1954
Comments Notes 24th, 1947, Mr. D. H. Brown and I saw at Rye Harbour, Sussex, a Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps griseigena) still in almost complete summer plumage. This bird was seen at very close range and we noted, rather casually at the time, that the whole of the bill wa...
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Letter

01 February 1945
Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference t o t h e letter from t h e Hon. G. Charteris (antea, p. 120), I can record three definite instances of Chaffinches having second broods. 1. I n 1938 a pair ringed b y me with coloured rings for identification nested in a holly just ...
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Reviews

01 February 1945
Comments Reviews The Breeding Distribution, History and Population of the North Atlantic Gannet (Sola bassana). By James Fisher and H. G. Vevcrs. Part I.--A History of the G a n n e t s Colonies, and t h e Census in 1939. Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. xii, pp. 173-213, ...
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Notes

01 February 1945
Comments Notes I HAVE recently been particularly interested in the behaviour of Marsh- and Coal-Tits, which together with larger numbers of Blue and Great Tits, have visited the garden here at Llanymynech during about the first three weeks of October, 1944. The garden,...
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