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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...

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...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993

01 November 1994 Comments Main paper This, the Rarities Committee's thirty-sixth annual report, details records of rare birds in 1993: a year with many highlights and much to interest the rare-bird enthusiast. The Committee has again been supported by the sponsorship of Carl Zeiss (Oberko...

Field-notes on some Asian Leaf-Warblers-I

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper ONLY three species of leaf-warblers or willow-warblers* (Phylloscopus) are common and regular visitors to Britain, but twelve forms, belonging to nine different species, have been recorded at one time or another. These, however, represent less than half t...

Do English Woodpigeons Migrate?

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper T H E object of this short paper is to draw attention to a curious problem in the hope that others will help in solving it. The observations here described, made independently by Lack round Oxford and by Ridpath in Kent and Sussex, cannot be satisfactoril...

Photographic studies of some less Familiar birds: LXV. Marmora's Warbler

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper (Plates 41-44) THOUGH the Dartford Warbler (Sylvia undata) is to be found on the islands of the western Mediterranean, it is there much outnumbered by its close relative, Marmora's Warbler (S. sarda), which has a very limited range from Tunis, Algeria, an...

Notes on the post-Juvenile Moult and first-winter plumage in the Pheasant

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper T H I S note has been prompted by a few inaccuracies which have persisted in The Handbook of British Birds on the post-juvenile moult and first-winter plumage of the Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus). Since its first edition in 1941, another six impressions ...

The passage of Black Terns Through Britain in Autumn 1954

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory) T H E unusual passage of Black Terns (Chlidonias niger) through the British Isles during the spring of 1954 has been discussed by Dickens (1955)- This was followed by an equally abnormal passage during the autumn. There appear...

Recent reports

01 July 1955 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the last fortnight of May and the first half of June, but it includes some observations from early May and to that extent overlaps with the previous one...

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