Letters

01 October 1971 Comments Letters Guillemots in Perthshire The most interesting note by E. J. Wise on the occurrence of Guillemots Uria aalge on the upper Tay inland in central Scotland in the autumns of 1969 and 1970 {Brit. Birds, 64: 77) raises a number of points. First, it is of course...
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Letters

01 October 1971 Comments Letters N e w names for auks Sirs,--In his latest revival of the desultory correspondence on vernacular names (Brit. Birds, 54: 255-256; 56: 383-384; 57: 36-37; and 57:134), R. W. Storer goes beyond previous proposals that we should add qualifying adjectives to a...
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Letters

01 December 1955 Comments Letters Further remarks on discoloration in House Sparrows Sirs,--The observations of C. J. O. Harrison (Brit. Birds, 56: 296-297) on 'industrial' discoloration in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and other birds prompt us to record information on an allied pro...
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