Letters

01 October 1994 Comments Letters Bannerman and the Black Oystercatcher. It is difficult not to sympathise with the sentiment in Bernard Zonfrillo's mourning of the Great Auk Pinguinus impennis, exterminated by man's hand on 3rd June 1844 (Brit. Birds 87: 269-270), but his blaming of t...
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Letters

01 September 1928 Comments Letters SIRS,---Of forty-three nests of the Mistle-Thnish (Turdus v. viscivorus) examined during t h e past eight years in various localities in Cumberland, two held clutches of five eggs each, three had three eggs each, the rest four. One five-egg clutch was fou...
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