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01 October 2000 Comments Other ugust's photograph (plate 228, repeated here as plate 300) clearly shows a passerine and, from its location and stance, most observers probably immediately thought `bunting or finch', these families containing the contrastingly patterned species typica...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 May 1986 Comments Other 'BLYTH'S REED-WARBLER AT FAIR ISLE. A NEW BRITISH BIRD. YET another bird is added to thc British list by the indefatigable workers on Fair Isle. Mr. V. Eagle CIarke records (Ann. Scot.Nat. Hist., 1911, p. 70) that a bird somewhat like a Garden-Warbler ...
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