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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Variations in Chaffinch Song

01 August 1943
Comments Main paper WORKING at first with four birds (A, B, C and D) I made the following observations on the songs of Chaffinches (FringiUa c. gengleri) in a coastal area of south Devon during the spring of 1942. B and C held adjacent territories and their songs were inter...
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Review

01 August 1943
Comments Reviews A Study of the Little Owl (Athene noctua) in New Zealand. By B. J. Marples. Trans. R. Soc. of New Zealand, Vol. 72, Part 3, pages 237-252, December, 1942 . M R . MARPLES undertook, in 1938, to make a thorough investigation of t h e Little Owl from every p...
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Notes

01 August 1943
Comments Notes As already briefly noted (antea Vol. xxxvi, p. 225) Crossbills (Loxia c. curvirostra) were reported in various districts in unusual numbers in the late summer and autumn of 1942. In response to our request, observers have sent information, details of whi...
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