Letters

01 October 1979
Comments Letters Plumage of Yellow-browed Warblers wintering in southern England In view of recent interest in the occurrence in Britain of Yellow-browed Warblers Phylloscopus inornatus resembling the race humei (Brit. Birds 71: 464-465; 72: 124-125, 130,485), ...
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Letters

01 March 1979
Comments Letters Field identification of Snowy Egret. When discussing the problem of distinguishing the Snowy Egret Egretta thula from the Little Egret E. garzetta in the field, Stanley Cramp (Brit. Birds 70: 206-214) and I. J . Ferguson-Lees (in...
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Letter

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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