Letters

01 March 1976 Comments Letters Lanceolated Warblers and vagrancy patterns Commenting on the records of Lanceolated Warblers Locustella lanceolata at Fair Isle (Shetland) on 22nd September 1973 and Out Skerries (also Shetland) on the same date, following one on Fair Isle on i...
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Letters

01 April 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,--In his article on the Migration of the Gannet, Dr. Landsborough-Thomson says (antea, p. 288) : " There are many more mid-winter records of first year birds from African than from European waters . . . the figures suggest . . . t h a t those [young ...
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Letters

01 March 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Handbook of British Birds, Vol. I I . , p . 97, t h e colour of t h e legs of t h e Subalpine Warbler {Sylvia c. cantillans) is given as yellow-brown. As you have (antea, Vol. X X X . , p . 73) appealed for sight observations of the colour o...
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