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01 August 1977 Comments Letters Melanistic Grey Heron Bryan L. Sage (in litt.) has confirmed that, when making his recent comment (Brit. Birds 70: 76), he had overlooked my record of a melanistic Grey Heron Ardea cinerea at Little Tring Reservoir, Tring, Hertfordshire, on 29th S...

Wigeon X Chiloe Wigeon hybrid resembling American Wigeon

01 April 1968 Comments Main paper It has been established that some interspecific hybrids among ducks and geese (Anatidae) strongly resemble one parent or even another species altogether, thus causing problems in field-identification. An extreme case in Britain is the hybrid Pochard Ay...

Hybrid Grey Lag X Canada Goose suggesting influence of Giant Canada Goose in Britain

01 December 1966 Comments Main paper of 1962, at Millom, south Cumberland, a male Grey Lag Goose Anser anser mated with a female Canada Goose Branta canadensis. The Canada Goose, which was perfectly normal in all its plumage characters, had flown in to join a flock of Grey Lags maintained in...

The juvenile Plumage of the Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit and further occurrences of this race in England

01 January 1965 Comments Main paper Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit ~Limosa limosa islandica in Britain and, quoting Williamson and Ruttledge (1958) in support, indicated that this form appeared t o favour the 'western and southern half of the country. This opinion was also upheld by Norrevan...

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01 December 1964 Comments Letters SIRS,--While not seeking to prolong this correspondence unduly, for there is more than a grain of truth on either side, I feel that some reply is called for to Mr. Reginald Wagstaffe's letter (antea, pp. 319-320). May I point out at once that I do not dis...

Reviews

01 November 1956 Comments Reviews By DAVID LACK (Methuen, London, 1956). 239 p a g e s ; 10 half-tone plates; 24 text illustrations. 21s. N O T the least striking feature of that astonishing building, the University Museum of Science at Oxford, is the tower; for behind the ventilator sha...

American Land birds in Western Europe

01 January 1955 Comments Main paper 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 t...

Obituary: Francis Linley Blathwavt (1875-1953), Norman Joy (1874-1953).

01 September 1954 Comments Obituaries BLATHWAYT, who died in his 78th year a t Dyrham, Gloucestershire, on June 30th, 1953, w a s a country parson of sterling qualities and a distinguished English naturalist, as close as possible to t h e Gilbert W h i t e tradition in a world vastly differe...

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01 October 1953 Comments Reviews Birds of the Gauntlet. By H. von Michaelis. (Hutchinson, London, 1952). 84s. The author is a deservedly successful artist and writer, portraying in this book birds which he has known at close quarters. All, except a European Kestrel, are South African spe...

Notes

01 September 1953 Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...

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Letters

Wigeon X Chiloe Wigeon hybrid resembling American Wigeon

Hybrid Grey Lag X Canada Goose suggesting influence of Giant Canada Goose in Britain

The juvenile Plumage of the Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit and further occurrences of this race in England

Letters

Reviews

American Land birds in Western Europe

Obituary: Francis Linley Blathwavt (1875-1953), Norman Joy (1874-1953).

Reviews

Notes

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