Letters

01 July 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--Records of Scaup (Aythya marila) appearing inland in Yorkshire this winter (1953-54) have been unusually numerous and I should be interested to know if these occurrences have been peculiar to Yorkshire only or whether this species has been recorded...
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Letters

01 March 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--In connexion with Mr. J. Bartholomew's observation of a Blackbird reaching maturity with a deformed bill (Vol. X X L , p . 69), a somewhat similar case has come under m y notice this winter. In this case it is a n Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculu...
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