Letters

01 January 1980 Comments Letters Bare-part colour of Snowy and Little Egrets The editorial comment which followed G. J. Oreel's letter on field identification of Snowy Egret Egretta thula (Brit. Birds 72: 128-129) was over-simplified and may be misleading. We hope that the fol...
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Letters

01 March 1968 Comments Letters The*wing-tip patterns of gulls Sirs,--Some years ago I saw a young Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalusflyby in Pagham Harbour, Sussex. The view was brief, but I had been watching the species in Italy not long before, and recognised the wing-pattern: t...
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