Reviews

01 January 1985
Comments Reviews Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Compact edition. By Salim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley. Oxford University Press, New Delhi & Oxford, 1983. 737 pages + 113 colour plates; numerous maps and linedrawings. £75.00.Ever since the publication of...
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Recent reports

01 January 1985
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Rarer passerines The variety of species seen was as usual impressive, but not the numbers, as the opportunities provided by the weather for vagrants to drop by was limited. There w...
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News and comment

01 January 1985
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds', Hayle Estuary developments. Birders who have enjoyed watching many species on the Hayle Estuary in Cornwall (includingquite a few rarities over the years) will be ...
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Requests

01 January 1985
Comments Editorials Please use 'British BirdShop'. Subscribers' support of our special book offers and the Peterson Sound Guide offer has significantly increased the journal's income and enabled us to have extra pages of papers and notes. We hope that we have also provide...
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Announcements

01 January 1985
Comments Editorials Special Thailand 'package' for 'BB' readers. If you are planning a trip to Thailand, some special arrangements have been made available for British Birds readers by Thai Airways International. Knowing that birdwatchers generally want (1) flexibility, a...
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Letters

01 January 1985
Comments Letters How many bird species in the world? In a recent book review (Brit. Birds 77: 280) mention is made of the '8,500-odd species' of birds in the world. A similar figure is quoted by the late Leslie Brown in his foreword to A Complete Checklist of the ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 January 1985
Comments Other 'I am naturally very reluctant to differ with so great an authority as Professor Collett, but I should like to remind the Rev F. Jourdain and Dr N. F. Ticehurst that apparently some doubt existed in Professor Collett's mind in regard to the effect...
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Notes

01 January 1985
Comments Notes Hybrid resembling Ring-necked Duck. On 18th March 1984, a Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris was reported from Tottenhill Gravel-pits, Norfolk. N. Bostock, myself and others went to see it. At about 150m it resembled a male Ring-necked Duck, but at ...
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PhotoSpot. 9. Dunn's Lark

01 January 1985
Comments Main paper Eric Hosking's photograph at the nest is perhaps the best known picture of this relatively little-known species of deserts and sub-deserts. The key features of Dunn's Lark Eremalauda dunni are its massive, almost conical bill, its distinctly ...
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Mystery photographs

01 January 1985
Comments Main paper In last month's photograph (repeated here as plate 19), an unusual duck (left-hand bird) is seen consorting with a pack of Tufted Ducks Aythya fuligula. Its outline clearly confirms that it is a diving duck, probably of the genus Aythya. Its distinctiv...
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