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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Looking Back

01 August 1997 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Apparent Summer Appearance of the Shore Lark in Devonshire.--On the 14th inst. [August 1897], at about 4 p.m., I saw near Paignton, Devon, a bird which I think could be no other than Otocoris alpestris, the Shore Lark, an adult ...
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Monthly Marathon

01 August 1997 Comments Other The swimming gull Larus (plate 49) was named by competitors as Audouin's L. audouinii (33%), Herring L. argentatus (30%), Lesser Black-backed L. fuscus (25%), Yellow-legged L. cachinnans (6%), Common L. canus (4%) and Great Black-backed L. marinus (2%)...
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