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Letters

01 March 1957 Comments Letters T H E BIRDS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE SIRS,--Material is being- collected for a small book on the birds of Gloucestershire by H. H. Davis, C. M. Swaine and myself; we have already made considerable progress in assembling infprmation. W e would be grateful for fu... Read More

Notes

01 March 1957 Comments Notes Ortolan Bunting in Middlesex. -- On the morning of 2nd September 1956, I was Walking along the northern bank of the River Brent where it flows into the Brent Reservoir, Middlesex, noting the many migrants which had arrived in the comparative calm after a ... Read More

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXIX. Ptarmigan

01 March 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates 17-24) T H E Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) is widely distributed throughout the Palaearctic and Nearctic regions. F o r many years the record of being " t h e northernmost bird ever collected by m a n " was held by a Ptarmigan which was shot in 1876 a... Read More

Letters

01 June 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--A good deal of interest, and even some feeling, seems to have been aroused by the question whether in the Channel Islands the English name "Armorican Warbler"/ instead of "Dartford Warbler", can be properly applied to the race found there, Sylvia u... Read More