Letters

01 December 1984 Comments Letters Tufted Duck carrying young. In connection with the recent notes by Montse Carbonell and Stephen B. Edwards (Brit. Birds 77: 318-319), I should like to draw attention to a previous published account by my husband, the late Dr Jeffery Harrison, of a fema...
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Mystery Photographs

01 December 1984 Comments Main paper It should have been fairly obvious, from the longish, down-curved bill, dark primaries and absence of a central wing-stripe, that the bird in plate 239 (repeated as 246) was a species of curlew or whimbrel Numenius. Readers having had the opportunity f...
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