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Letters

01 June 1973 Comments Letters Wallcreeper on migration in the Netherlands Dr H. Lohrl's statement (Brit. Birds, 63 : 167) that the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria is non-migratory has been challenged by David Elias, H. G. Alexander, Guy Mountfort and K. D. Smith (Brit. Birds... Read More

Studies of Sparrowhawks

01 June 1973 Comments Main paper Roy Blewitt's photographs are the first of the Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus to be published in British Birds since the long series which accompanied J. H. Owen's remarkable studies during 1916-36. They show well the uniform upperparts (plates 41a, 42b, ... Read More

Recent reports: September to December

01 February 1966 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary contiaues the one published ia December (firit. Birds, 58: 527-528) and is confined to the rarities in the last quarter of 1965. The great fall of migrants in early September wa... Read More

Letters

01 February 1966 Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ... Read More