Letter

01 April 1981 Comments Letters Tail shape of Bulwer's Petrel M. R. Alibone commented on the apparent lack of wedge shape to the tail of Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii {Brit, Birds 73: 217). In April 1971, I saw several Bulwer's Petrels off the bulge of Africa in the vicin...
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Letters

01 May 1969 Comments Letters The Irish record of Bulwer's Petrel To avoid misinterpretation of the editorial note appended to the letter from Dr J. T, R. Sharrock on the subject of the Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii seen by J. R, H. Clements off Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, on 26t...
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Letters

01 January 1968 Comments Letters Little or White-rumped Swift ? Sirs,---The interesting article by I. J. Ferguson-Lees on Apus affinis {Brit. Birds, 60: 286-290) prompts me to raise two points. The first is the choice of the vernacular name 'White-rumped Swift' in preference to that of '...
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