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01 March 1985 Comments Editorials Colour-marked and wing-tagged Eiders. The Shetland Oil Terminal Environmental Advisory Group is studying the local and long-distance movements of Eiders Somateria mollisiima by marking the males: the white plumage is dyed yellow, a yellow darvic tag is...

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01 March 1985 Comments Editorials Christmas Whisky Puzzle. We received 46 correct solutions to the competition set on page xv of the December 1984 issue. Whitethroat ('what' surrounding 'it or the' jumbled) Avocet ('ova' turned, followed by 'CET') Linnet ('let' with 'inn' in...

Errata in volume 64

01 December 1971 Comments Editorials This list does not include obvious typographical errors, or corrections to Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67' by Dr J. T. R. Sharrock (to be listed at the end of that series) or to the Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1970' (to...

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Editorial: Egg-collectors in the 1970's

01 December 1971 Comments Editorials White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii, Alaska, June 1970 {photo: BryanL. Sage); below, Great Northern Diver G. immer, Iceland, June 1961 {photo: Hermann Schlenker). White-billed differs in its whitish-yellow bill (greyer at base) with straight culmen and angl...

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