Letters

01 November 1992 Comments Letters Shell identification. May I respectfully point out that the bivalve shell attached to the bill of a Dunlin Calidris alpina in plate 111 is not a cockle Cardium, but looks very like a thick trough shell Spisula solida. This species has a much thick...
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Letters

01 April 1955 Comments Letters THE ABERDEENSHIRE RECORD OF A WHITE-THROATED SPARROW 5ms,--Commenting - on the four British-taken examples of the White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) in their excellent and timely paper "American land-birds in western E u r o p e " (antea, pp....
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