Looking back

01 June 2000 Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `Occurrence of the Bohemian Waxwing [Bombycilla garrulus] near London.-I have notices of this bird having been killed last week [in mid January 1850] in many localities round London: Harrow-on-the-Hill, Kilburn (seven s...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 2000 Comments Other In theory, identification of April's wader (plate 117, repeated here as plate 180) should be fairly straightforward. It is obviously small and, judging by the colour and extent of the hooded appearance, it is in summer plumage. The upstretched wing is,...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1995 Comments Other With the closing date for January's entries (28th February) coming a week after this March issue will have been printed and five days after it will have been posted to subscribers, the identity of the bird on the overhead wire (plate 10) will be reveal...
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Looking Back

01 March 1995 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, in March 1970, D. I. M. Wallace made a thorough analysis of the 'First ten years of the Rarities Committee' (Brit. Birds 63: 113-128). One aspect in particular will have changed between the 1950s/60s and today: back in those days...
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