Letters

01 October 1971
Comments Letters Guillemots in Perthshire The most interesting note by E. J. Wise on the occurrence of Guillemots Uria aalge on the upper Tay inland in central Scotland in the autumns of 1969 and 1970 {Brit. Birds, 64: 77) raises a number of points. First, it is of course...
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Letters

01 October 1971
Comments Letters N e w names for auks Sirs,--In his latest revival of the desultory correspondence on vernacular names (Brit. Birds, 54: 255-256; 56: 383-384; 57: 36-37; and 57:134), R. W. Storer goes beyond previous proposals that we should add qualifying adjectives to a...
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Letters

01 February 1957
Comments Letters ICELAND R E D W I N G S WINTERING SIRS,--October 1956 saw an unparalleled " i n v a s i o n " of Iceland Redwings (Turdus musicus coburni) through Fair Isle, big movements occurring on the i2th, i8th-2oth and 2zLth-25th with westerly weather. Of 333 Redwi...
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