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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Recent reports and news

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