Letters

01 January 1985 Comments Letters How many bird species in the world? In a recent book review (Brit. Birds 77: 280) mention is made of the '8,500-odd species' of birds in the world. A similar figure is quoted by the late Leslie Brown in his foreword to A Complete Checklist of the ...
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Letters

01 April 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. K. E. L. Simmons's letter (antea, p. 40) on this subject draws attention to reactions in trapped birds intermediate between remaining immobile on the open hand and the extreme, trance-like "death feigning". A further case may be of interest. On...
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