Monthly marathon

01 May 2000 Comments Other Oh, no! It's a not-verysharp photograph of a rather plain warbler (plate 91, repeated here as plate 137). The plainness and the general shape and lack of any marking save for a weak supercilium suggest one of the Phylloscopus warblers, perhaps one of t...
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Looking back

01 May 2000 Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `I have been struck [by] the excessive desire, which would appear to exist, not only to multiply genera and to fabricate names of a startling character to the common and unlearned reader, but also to change and to throw...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 1994 Comments Other February's breast-banded passerine (plate 33) was named as Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris (66%), Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra (21%), Bimaculated Lark M. bimaculata (11%) and Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla (2%), It was a juvenile Ho...
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