Letters

01 March 2003 Comments Letters In their account of the history of albatross classification, Sangster et al. (2002) omit to mention why Alexander et al. (1965) wrote on the subject, or the fact that these authors already recognised four main groups. The nomenclature of the tubinares ...
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Letters

01 January 1985 Comments Letters How many bird species in the world? In a recent book review (Brit. Birds 77: 280) mention is made of the '8,500-odd species' of birds in the world. A similar figure is quoted by the late Leslie Brown in his foreword to A Complete Checklist of the ...
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