Letters

01 August 2001
Comments Letters Prompted by W. R. P. Bourne's letter (Brit. Birds 94: 209), I feel compelled to set the record straight on a more widely quoted incorrect date. The first British occurrence of the Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus is invariably given as 1796 (e.g. Yarre...
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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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