Letters

01 August 1985 Comments Letters Distinctive bird names. It was the fine article on 'Canary Islands Stonechat' Saxicola dacotiae (Brit. Birds 77: 467-474) that finally pushed me over the edge into writing this letter. There we had a remarkably excellent article by a well-researched ob...
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Letters

01 February 1952 Comments Letters SIRS,--In your September issue (antea, vol. xliv, p. 314) is a sight record by Mr. D. D. Harber oi a "Sooty Shearwater" seen off the Sussex coast, "some way out" to sea. The bird is described simply as " a large, all-black shearwater with a rather heavy b...
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