Letters

01 October 1985
Comments Letters Distinction between Mandarin and Wood Duck in female-type plumages. A comprehensive description of differences between Mandarin Aix galericulata and Wood Duck A. sponsa was given by C. Holt {Brit. Birds 11: 227-232). As he noted, however, some of the c...
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Letters

01 January 1955
Comments Letters " A N T I N G " BY B I R D S S I R S , -- T h e announcement by the Editors of British Birds (antea, vol. xlvii, p p . 312-313), based on the work of H . Poulsen, that " a n t i n g " by birds is "quite a u t o m a t i c " and is merely performed to rub o...
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