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From the rarities committee's files: American Golden Plover in Scilly

01 February 1994 Comments Main paper This bird was seen by several observers during its stay, so I hope that (a) other descriptions are forthcoming and (b) this one doesn't have to be too detailed (bearing in mind recent comments in BB over skimpy notes!). I was about to scan the waders i...

Little, Least and Saunders's Little Terns

01 February 1994 Comments Main paper Alhough both the BOU (1971) and BWP (Cramp 1985) treat Least Tern Sterna antillarum as a subspecies of Little Tern S. albifrons, the AOU (1983) and British Birds (86: 2) recognise it as a full species. The accompanying photographs provide an interestin...

Species and subspecies

01 February 1994 Comments Main paper Over 40 years ago, Bernard Tucker, then the editor of British Birds and one of the four compilers of the 'Witherby' Handbook, started a long paper which ran over several issues of this journal with the words:'There are good reasons for considering that...

White-throated Robin in the Isle of Man: new to Britain and Ireland

01 February 1994 Comments Main paper In the late afternoon of 22nd June 1983, J. R. Calladine, M. W. Watson and I were walking back to the observatory on the Calf of Man, Isle of Man. A movement caught my eye and alerted me to a small bird on top of a drystone wall, some 10 m away. I gain...