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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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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