Letters

01 May 1960 Comments Letters Migrations of the Oystercatcher Sirs,--Since Mr. D . G. Andrew in his recent paper {Brit. Birds, 5 2: 216-220) on the migrations of the Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostrakgus) makes some criticism of my earlier paper on the same subject (Brit. Birds, 50: 519...
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Notes

01 May 1960 Comments Notes Broken e g g s i n nests of Sparrowhawk.--I can add two records to Dr. D . A. Ratcliffe's list (Brit. Birds, 53: 128-129) of broken eggs of Sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus), one of them showing that the phenomenon goes back some time. On 7th June 1927, near...
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Letters

01 July 1957 Comments Letters T H E C O L L E C T I O N O F R E C O R D S F O R ANALYSIS S I R S , -- Y o u r correspondent, Mr. T. C. Smout, raises issues of fundamental importance (antea, vol. xlix, pp. 287-288). If a paper is put forward for publication in a scientific form and pur...
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