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The correct gender of poecile and the scientific name of the Willow Tit

02 November 2011 Comments Letters Recently, there has been a debate in some areas - notably David & Gosselin (2008), but also on certain internet forums - about the scientific name of the Willow Tit Poecile montana - and whether the masculine form of the species name, mon...

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01 November 2011 Comments Letters Michael Shrubb's (2011) review of the histor- ical status of the Great Bustard Otis tarda in Britain very much follows our paper (Waters & Waters 2005) and we agree with most of what he writes. His main conclusion, that the Great Bustard did not colonise ...

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01 January 1950 Comments Letters SIRS,--I have delayed answering the letter on the above subject from Mr. P. H. T. Hartley (British Birds, xli, pp. 254-255) because the data then available only served to justify his remark that " more investigation is needed." I examined the two sets of ...

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The correct gender of poecile and the scientific name of the Willow Tit

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