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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Requests for information

01 March 1967 Comments Editorials Autumn and winter influx of Rough-legged Buzzards.---Since October 1966 unusual numbers of Rough-legged Buzzards Buteo lagopus have been widely scattered in eastern and south-eastern counties with some also well inland and others as far west as Cornwall a...
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Notes

01 February 1962 Comments Notes British-ringed Manx Shearwater recovered in Australia,--The Bird Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology has received a letter dated 22nd November 1961, which reports that the feathers and bones of a sea-bird "black or dark on top with whit...
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