Letters

01 February 2010 Comments Letters The recent paper by Richard Broughton (Brit. Birds 102: 604-616) summarised a welcome analysis of the relative importance of the various criteria used to separate Willow Poecile montana and Marsh Tits P. palustris. We consider, however, that the con- clus...
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01 February 1945 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference t o t h e letter from t h e Hon. G. Charteris (antea, p. 120), I can record three definite instances of Chaffinches having second broods. 1. I n 1938 a pair ringed b y me with coloured rings for identification nested in a holly just ...
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Letter

01 July 1931 Comments Letters C H A F F I N C H E S CAUGHT IN XEST-U1X1XG. To the Editors of BRITISH BiRfls. SIRS,--With reference to the notes on this subject(Vol. XXIV., pp. 103, 125 and 156) Surgeon-Lt.-Cdr. T. H u n t and Surgeon-Lt. F. A. Pearse brought me a hen Chaffinch (Fvingi...
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Letters

01 June 1931 Comments Letters SIRS,--Referring t o Mr. Riviere's Ornithological Report lor Norfolk for 1930 (antea, Vol. XXIV., pp. 306-318) m a y I be allowed t o make the following slight additions. SPRING MIGRATION.--As little has been recorded the following m a y be of interest. M...
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