Photographs and text by J. KlST (Plates 66-69) Ross's GULL (Rhodostethia rosea) is indeed, as Fisher and Lockley (1954) put it, "one of the most mysterious birds of the world". It is also still true that very few ornithologists have seen it alive and so we were extraordinarily fortunate when the discovery of an adult in Holland in the summer of 1958 enabled us to obtain what must be some of the first...
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