Letters

01 October 1985
Comments Letters Distinction between Mandarin and Wood Duck in female-type plumages. A comprehensive description of differences between Mandarin Aix galericulata and Wood Duck A. sponsa was given by C. Holt {Brit. Birds 11: 227-232). As he noted, however, some of the c...
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Letter

01 October 1939
Comments Letters SIRS,--In connexion with t h e discussion of this subject (antea, pp. 248-50) it is perhaps worth mentioning t h a t in September, 1911, I watched quantities of Great Shearwaters in t h e Bay of Biscay on a voyage to Bordeaux on the 6th, and on the return...
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