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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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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