Letters

01 August 1968
Comments Letters Waxwing omission Sirs,--Owing to a regrettable oversight, our paper on 'Waxwings in Britain and Europe during 1965/66' (Brit. Birds, 6 1 : 97-118) failed to acknowledge the work of T. Ennis and the Northern Ireland Ornithologists' Club in sending us recor...
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Recent reports

01 August 1968
Comments News and comment (These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary covers June 1968 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. A few June reports were mentioned last month {Brit. Birds, 6 1 : 527-528) where they were particula...
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News and comments

01 August 1968
Comments News and comment Industrial threats to the south-west.--The Western Morning News for 17th and 23rd May contained news of important industrial proposals likely to mar natural amenities in Devon and Cornwall. These proposals include examinations of six possible sites for po...
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Notes

01 August 1968
Comments Notes Curlew's nest with seven eggs.--In April and May 1968 a pair of Curlews Nuwemus arquata were seen on at least six occasions by Mrs. R. Barnes and ourselves at a traditional breeding site in a marshy field near Purton, Wiltshire. On n t h May I.W.Y. flushe...
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Dowitcher identification

01 August 1968
Comments Main paper During a long argument over the specific identity of a dowitcher Ldmnodromus sp. that frequented the Hayle estuary, Cornwall, from 30th October 1966 to 22nd April 1967 and was even trapped on one occasion, many observers found themselves confused by the i...
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Recent reports

01 February 1968
Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary mainly concerns December, which is generally a quiet month. This year, too, most observers kept away from agricultural land because of the foot-andmouth epidemic and so it is no...
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News and comments

01 February 1968
Comments News and comment Conference on local bird reports.--About 70 editors and editorial representatives of some 50 local and regional bird reports attended a conference held at Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 15th to 17th September 1967. The conference was only the second of its ki...
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Request for information

01 February 1968
Comments Editorials Distribution and numbers of Collared Doves.--In 1965 Robert Hudson traced the spread of the Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto in Britain and Ireland from the time of the first breeding record in 1955 up to the end of 1964 {Brit. Birds, 58: 105-139). He ...
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Letters

01 February 1968
Comments Letters Width of tail-band of immature Mediterranean Gulls Sirs,--As the plumage of immature Mediterranean Gulls Larus melanocephalus was described in some detail by P. J. Grant and R. E. Scott (Brit. Birds, 60: 365-368), it seems a pity that they did not mention...
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