Letters

01 May 2002 Comments Letters The trouble with debates about the identity of potential `firsts' (e.g. Brit. Birds 95: 12-16) is that they may delay the recognition of new species deserving special attention. In July 1989, for example, two dark-rumped storm-petrels caught at Tynemou...
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Letters

01 April 1968 Comments Letters Taxonomic responsibility Sirs,--In his review (Brit. Birds, 59:312-315) of the revised and enlarged edition of A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (1966), E. M. Nicholson remarked on the arbitrary alteration of the classification, sequence an...
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