Letters

01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...
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Letters

01 September 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--I read with great interest the paper by Desmond Morris (antea, pp. 33-49) and the subsequent letter by A. J. Bruce (antea, p. 215) in which this subject is discussed. Bruce's theory, that a thrush (Turdus sp.) cannot afford to use its feet owing to...
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