Letters

01 November 2000 Comments Letters In his account of a petrel seen off Ireland in 1974, Jim Enticott (Brit. Birds 92: 504-518) misquoted me in saying `Bourne (Bull. BOC 85: 97-105) proposed treating Soft-plumaged Petrel as three distinct species, Softplumaged Pterodroma mollis, Gon-gon ...
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Letters

01 July 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,---In an article on this subject (antea Vol. xl, pp. 62-4) A. Whitaker cites as examples of abnormality two diving descents by Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) and Jackdaws (C, monedula spermologus) from an estimated height of 600-700 feet to a freshly p...
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