Letters

01 April 1983
Comments Letters Refrigeration and the 'Hastings rarities'. One of the more contentious areas of both the British Birds papers concerning the 'Hastings rarities', and the late Dr James M. Harrison's book Bristow and the Hastings Rarities Affair (1968) involved ref...
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Letters

01 April 1939
Comments Letters SIRS,--In his article on the Migration of the Gannet, Dr. Landsborough-Thomson says (antea, p. 288) : " There are many more mid-winter records of first year birds from African than from European waters . . . the figures suggest . . . t h a t those [young ...
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Letters

01 March 1939
Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Handbook of British Birds, Vol. I I . , p . 97, t h e colour of t h e legs of t h e Subalpine Warbler {Sylvia c. cantillans) is given as yellow-brown. As you have (antea, Vol. X X X . , p . 73) appealed for sight observations of the colour o...
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