Letters

01 January 2010 Comments Letters In 2007, I was surprised to read (in Flood & Thomas 2007, p. 418) that I had seen a dark- rumped Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus near South Georgia, when what I saw was a bird with markings resembling those of Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma le...
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Letter

01 February 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--After reading carefully Mr. Coward's article (antea, p . 134) and Col. Ryves's letter (antea, p. 171), I would like to suggest an explanation of wing-clapping which occurred to me years ago, after observing domestic Pigeons make this noise within a...
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