Letters

01 September 1970 Comments Letters Melanistic White-fronted Geese Further to my note on melanistic European White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons albifrons (Brit. Birds, 63: 131), Eckhart Kuyken has drawn my attention to his recent paper on melanism, albinism and other plumage variants in wi...
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Letters

01 June 1969 Comments Letters Bill-length as a field-character of the White-winged Black Tern ? In his paper on 'Juvenile and winter plumages of the marsh terns' (Brit. Birds, 53: 243-252) Kenneth Williamson differentiated without qualification between the bill of the Black Tern Chlid...
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Notes

01 June 1969 Comments Notes Little Ringed and Ringed Plovers laying in the same nest For about i£ hours on 15th June 1968, at a gravel pit in Essex, Mrs Gillian Craw and I watched a Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius sitting on a nest which contained four eggs of that spec...
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Notes

01 January 1948 Comments Notes WITH reference to my note (antea, Vol. xl, p. 209) concerning the large gathering of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in Carmarthenshire in March, 1946, I was interested to read Mr. Cadman's note which immediately followed my own. In reply to Mr. Cadman's query ...
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