Letters

01 August 2001 Comments Letters Prompted by W. R. P. Bourne's letter (Brit. Birds 94: 209), I feel compelled to set the record straight on a more widely quoted incorrect date. The first British occurrence of the Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus is invariably given as 1796 (e.g. Yarre...
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Letters

01 September 1989 Comments Letters The identification of large terns. The paper on the 'Identification of large terns' (Brit. Birds 80: 257-276) gave the impression (fig. 2) that Royal Tern Sterna maxima has an almost blood-red bill, not especially dissimilar from that of Caspian S. cas...
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