Letters

01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...
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Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...
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Review

01 July 1929 Comments Reviews A History of the Birds of Essex. By William E, Glegg, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. Demy 8vo. Pp. xxxv., 342, 20 Plates and a Map. (H, F . & G. Witherby.) 25s. So many changes have taken place in the thirty-nine years t h a t have elapsed since the publication of Mill...
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