Monthly marathon

01 November 1989
Comments Other The third 'Monthly marathon' has been won, by R. N. Hobbs of Hastings, East Sussex. His winning 11-in-a-row sequence is repeated on page 571. The bird in plate 276 was named by competitors as follows: Fan-tailed Warbler Cisticola juncidis (65%) Gracefu...
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Seventy-five years ago...

01 November 1989
Comments Other 'ON September 4th, after reading the Report on the Land-Rail in British Birds, I asked my bailiff is he had heard or seen any this year and he replied in the negative. Oddly enough, in the afternoon when some oats were being cut no less than five were ...
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