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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News and comment

01 November 1966
Comments News and comment World conference of the I.C.B.P.--The 14th world conference of the International Council for Bird Preservation, held in Cambridge from n t h to 15th July 1966, was attended by representatives from 31 different countries. A wide range of topics were discus...
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Letters

01 November 1966
Comments Letters Fault-bars as a means of ageing birds Sirs,---Last year I read a letter by C. J. Mead on the ageing of birds by means of fault-bars (Brit. Birds, 58: 227-228), in which he referred to the work of W. E. Glegg who noted fault-bars on the tails of 737 bird s...
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