Letters

01 June 1969
Comments Letters Bill-length as a field-character of the White-winged Black Tern ? In his paper on 'Juvenile and winter plumages of the marsh terns' (Brit. Birds, 53: 243-252) Kenneth Williamson differentiated without qualification between the bill of the Black Tern Chlid...
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Notes

01 August 1961
Comments Notes Preening in flight.--So often one does not know what is unusual until someone else says it is. I refer to the publication of a note on a Little Gull (Larus minutus) preening in flight (Brit. Birds, 54: 117}Some attitudes adopted by {left to right) Black-h...
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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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