Letters

01 March 1979
Comments Letters Field identification of Snowy Egret. When discussing the problem of distinguishing the Snowy Egret Egretta thula from the Little Egret E. garzetta in the field, Stanley Cramp (Brit. Birds 70: 206-214) and I. J . Ferguson-Lees (in...
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Letters

01 March 1952
Comments Letters SIRS,--We are hoping to collate information about visible migration over, and on the shores of, the Mediterranean. Very little has been published on the subject and no doubt a good many unpublished records, especially those made on voyages, are in existen...
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Letters

01 January 1950
Comments Letters SIRS,--I have delayed answering the letter on the above subject from Mr. P. H. T. Hartley (British Birds, xli, pp. 254-255) because the data then available only served to justify his remark that " more investigation is needed." I examined the two sets of ...
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Letters

01 March 1948
Comments Letters SIRS,--In Vol. xl, p. 245, you say t h a t the taking of food from the water b y Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) has apparently not been "previously recorded in our ornithological literature." I have recently had occasion t o search t h e literature for ...
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Letters

01 March 1946
Comments Letters SIRS,--Witts reference to your comments on t h e note o n . a Robin feeding a fledgling Blackbird (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p, 355), there is anotheroccurrence of a Robin feeding a brood of young Song-Thrushes mentioned, and illustrated, with three photograph...
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Letters

01 March 1939
Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Handbook of British Birds, Vol. I I . , p . 97, t h e colour of t h e legs of t h e Subalpine Warbler {Sylvia c. cantillans) is given as yellow-brown. As you have (antea, Vol. X X X . , p . 73) appealed for sight observations of the colour o...
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Letters

01 February 1938
Comments Letters SIRS,--In reply to Mr. Lockley's letter under this heading (antea, pp. 278-9), I had two main points t o make in m y report on Skokholm Island, namely :-- 1. That owing t o its depredations on Storm-Petrels, the Little Owl should, if possible, be prevente...
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Letters

01 November 1937
Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference t o Mr. L. Parmenter's notes on t h e above subject (antea, p p . 152-3) t h e following observations m a y be of interest :-- On J a n u a r y 24th, 1936, a sunny morning with a fresh easterly wind blowing, there were 17 Goosanders ...
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Letters

01 July 1937
Comments Letters SIRS,--I feel that, in order t o bring this u p t o date, some comments are called for as regards Mr. Stanley Lewis's interesting account of " Birds of Steep Holm " (Vol. X X X . , pp. 219-223) in view of t h e fact t h a t for t h e past five years (1933...
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Letters

01 April 1936
Comments Letters SIRS,--In view of Mr. Lack's note on t h e repeated re-trapping of Robins (antea, p . 288), I m a y mention t h a t in t h e winter of 1929-30, when a t Cambridge, I had a Sparrow t r a p in t h e garden " baited " with seed. Greenfinches (Chloris ch. Mor...
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