Looking back

01 May 2000
Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `I have been struck [by] the excessive desire, which would appear to exist, not only to multiply genera and to fabricate names of a startling character to the common and unlearned reader, but also to change and to throw...
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Letters

01 September 1963
Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to t h e article on " The Breeding-habits of t h e Dartford Warbler," and t o t h e statement on page 218, I have never seen a Dartford Warbler's nest in England, a n d know nothing of their habits in this country. I n t h e...
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Letters

01 June 1953
Comments Letters SIRS,--A good deal of interest, and even some feeling, seems to have been aroused by the question whether in the Channel Islands the English name "Armorican Warbler"/ instead of "Dartford Warbler", can be properly applied to the race found there, Sylvia u...
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