Letters

01 October 1979 Comments Letters Plumage of Yellow-browed Warblers wintering in southern England In view of recent interest in the occurrence in Britain of Yellow-browed Warblers Phylloscopus inornatus resembling the race humei (Brit. Birds 71: 464-465; 72: 124-125, 130,485), ...
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01 March 1979 Comments Letters Field identification of Snowy Egret. When discussing the problem of distinguishing the Snowy Egret Egretta thula from the Little Egret E. garzetta in the field, Stanley Cramp (Brit. Birds 70: 206-214) and I. J . Ferguson-Lees (in...
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01 May 1935 Comments Letters SIRS,--A sample count of Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps c. cristatus) is to be taken during the coming summer under the auspices of the British Trust for Ornithology. The main object of the count is to ascertain as far as possible what effect the past two...
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01 February 1935 Comments Letters SIRS,--May I say something on this vexed subject ? I speak of those territorial species whose young depend upon insects for food. Three sets of facts seem connected :-- (i) T h a t in a cold and wet breeding season we find infertile eggs, chicks dead in t...
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01 January 1935 Comments Letters SIRS,--1 read with interest Mr. Rickman's note regarding the nesting oi the Pintail in Dumbartonshire (antea, p, 206). For many years I have kept and bred Pintail at Tullichewan, which is only about two or three miles from the spot where Mr. Rickman found...
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