Letters

01 November 1994 Comments Letters Origin of European Pink-backed Pelicans. Following the report of a Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens in Spain (Brit. Birds 86: 374-375), and one near Sagrado, northeast Italy, in September 1992, as well as other observations farther north in Euro...
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Reviews

01 November 1994 Comments Reviews Finches and Sparrows: an identification guide. By Peter Clement. Illustrated by Alan Harris & John Davis. Christopher Helm Publishers, London, 1993. 500 pages; 73 colour plates; 44 line-drawings; over 280 distribution maps. ISBN 0-7136-8017-2. £29...
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Announcements

01 November 1994 Comments Editorials The 'BB' Award for the Best Annual Bird Report Entries are invited for the fourth annual award (see accounts of the first, second and third awards, Brit. Birds 85: 299-308; 86: 163-165; 87: 171-173), which is open to all those clubs and societies in Br...
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Errata in volume 64

01 December 1971 Comments Editorials This list does not include obvious typographical errors, or corrections to Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67' by Dr J. T. R. Sharrock (to be listed at the end of that series) or to the Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1970' (to...
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Recent reports

01 December 1971 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The following summary deals with September 1971, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The month opened and closed with an anticyclone extending from the Azores to the Baltic and l...
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News and comment

01 December 1971 Comments News and comment Suggested county boundary changes Most British county boundaries were laid down during the 19th century or earlier; by people at large they have tended tc be regarded as immutable. In England, the well-established system of local bird recording has always...
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Letters

01 December 1971 Comments Letters International Ornithological Congresses In 1960 you were kind enough to allow me to expose myself in the van of some correspondence on the International Ornithological Congresses (Brit. Birds, 53: 583-584; 54: 80-92, 170-171). Since I gather from your rec...
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Reviews

01 December 1971 Comments Reviews Highland Birds. By D. Nethersole-Thompson. Published for the Highlands and Islands Development Board by Collins, Glasgow, 1971. 108 pages; 80 plates, 60 in colour. £1.25. Highland Summer. By Seton Gordon. Cassell, London, 1971. 182 pages; 10 full-pa...
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