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01 November 1991 Comments Letters Identification of Meadow and Red-throated Pipits. In a 'Mystery photographs' text {Brit. Birds 79: 34-40), the late P.J. Grant discussed the identification of Meadow Anthus pratensis and Red-throated Pipits A. cervinus, prompted by a series of photogra... Read More

Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1991 Comments Other ' Mr W. J. E. Dawson states that he discovered a pair of Lanius collurio near Athlone about the end of April, 1916. Mr Dawson has kindly sent us further details of the birds he saw and we feel sure from what he says that he was mistaken in his identifi... Read More

Report of the Cambridge Bird Club, 1946

01 December 1947 Comments Editorials --The nomenclature followed in this volume is in accordance with t h e " Systematic List " printed at the end of Volume V of The Handbook of British Birds and reprinted in t h e revised edition of A Chech-List of British Birds. Abberton Reservoir, Essex, ... Read More

Notes

01 December 1947 Comments Notes I AM indebted to the Rev. L. G. M. Sheldon, of Crowborough, Sussex, who is an experienced ornithologist and at whose vicarage these notes were made, for providing me with the following facts. In mid-April of this year, 1947, a cock Pied Wagtail (Motacill... Read More