Mystery photographs

01 August 1983
Comments Main paper Is this neat, smooth mystery bird with a black-and-white tail band perhaps a dove Streptopelia diving from an overhead wire to a patch of spilled grain? The strongly two-toned wings might support such a conclusion—but no, surely the triangular head a...
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Personalities. 31 Hilary Burn

01 August 1983
Comments Main paper Hilary Burn Dominated as it is by often brawny and frequently bearded males, what a pleasure to include in this series a truly feminine female subject. Although almost invariably clad in her favourite jeans, Hilary Burn manages to look elegant ...
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Size-illusion

01 August 1983
Comments Main paper Accurate judgment of the size of a bird is apparently even more difficult kthan I suggested in my earlier contribution on the subject (Grant 1980). Then, I believed that the difficulties stemmed only from the inability of the eye to judge accurately re...
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