Letters

01 September 1970
Comments Letters Melanistic White-fronted Geese Further to my note on melanistic European White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons albifrons (Brit. Birds, 63: 131), Eckhart Kuyken has drawn my attention to his recent paper on melanism, albinism and other plumage variants in wi...
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Notes

01 July 1946
Comments Notes Ox February 22nd, 1946, I received word from David Reid that a pair of Ravens {Corvus c. corax) were building a nest in a small Ayrshire heronry. I visited the site two days later and the nest, which could be distinguished from the Herons' by the presenc...
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Notes

01 February 1941
Comments Notes THESE notes cover the periods between May and September, 1939, and May to July, 1940, and are in continuation of those published in Vol. XXXII, pp. 366-8. BRITISH GOLDFINCH (Carduelisc. britannica).--It is pleasing to be able to record the continued incr...
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