DURING the past ten years it has become increasingly apparent that the status of American land-bird vagrants in the British Isles would have t o be reconsidered. One of us ( R . S . R . F . ) wrote in 1950 t o t h e B . O . U . List-Committee, which was then preparing the Check-List published in 1952, suggesting that the time was ripe for such a reconsideration, b u t this view was not accepted by...

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