Letters

01 December 1950
Comments Letters SIRS,---A note recently published in British Birds (antea, p. 89) commenting on the presence of Bewick's Swans a t Malltraeth, suggests t h a t the status of this species in Anglesey is t h a t of a n occasional visitor. These birds are, however, more reg...
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Letters

01 July 1937
Comments Letters SIRS,--I feel that, in order t o bring this u p t o date, some comments are called for as regards Mr. Stanley Lewis's interesting account of " Birds of Steep Holm " (Vol. X X X . , pp. 219-223) in view of t h e fact t h a t for t h e past five years (1933...
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Letter

01 August 1936
Comments Letters SIRS,--The Rev. J. M. McWilliam in his letter on the above (antea, p . 56) remarks in his closing paragraph t h a t he " cannot remember seeing any notes on t h e effect of the angle of sunlight on t h e apparent colour of birds." We would refer Mm to our...
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Letter

01 July 1936
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have often been struck by the apparent differences in colour of Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the Clyde. On May gth, 1936, a t 9.30 a.m. (summer time) I watched half a dozen of these Gulls sitting on a railing on Dunoon pier within a few yar...
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