Letters

01 November 1999
Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...
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Looking back

01 November 1999
Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...
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Letters

01 June 1935
Comments Letters SIRS,--May I ask for your kind help and t h a t of your readers in regard to a problem which has arisen in the course of some investigations into the worship of bird-gods in ancient times in Europe. The Woodpecker, as Aristophanes informs us in a well-kno...
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Reviews

01 June 1935
Comments Reviews A History of the Birds of Middlesex. By William E. Glegg, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U, Witherby. 18s. I T was with Hartiog's Birds of Middlesex, published in 1866, t h a t modern county ornithologies began, and the lapse of nearly seventy years, during which the face...
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