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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Notes

01 March 1962 Comments Notes Peregrine incubating Kestrel's eggs.--On 13 th May 1961, I was prospecting some crags in the Great Glen, Inverness-shire, in the hope of rinding a pair of nesting Peregrines (Falco peregrinus). As I approached the most likely-looking face from below, a fe...
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Notes

01 April 1946 Comments Notes IN the autumn of 1945 I have noticed Jackdaws (Corvus monedula spermologus) frequenting two holes in different beeches close together, at Westerham, Kent, but have been unable to prove definitely that they were breeding. A Jackdaw was seen to leave one h...
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