Letters

01 January 1980
Comments Letters Bare-part colour of Snowy and Little Egrets The editorial comment which followed G. J. Oreel's letter on field identification of Snowy Egret Egretta thula (Brit. Birds 72: 128-129) was over-simplified and may be misleading. We hope that the fol...
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Letters

01 September 1978
Comments Letters Great Blue and aberrant Grey Herons I was interested to learn of the two observations of melanistic Grey Herons Ardea cinerea (Brit. Birds 70: 76, 345-346), as well as the one seen in the Camargue, France, by Dr J. G. and Dr P. F. Harrison and ...
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Letters

01 May 1946
Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. N. D. Pullen, Mr. H. G. Hurrell and Miss N. C. Hicks (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300 and 360) have drawn attention t o an interesting problem of behaviour. I have observed t h e " digging " in the bottom of the nest, as described by the abov...
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Letters

01 September 1929
Comments Letters SIRS,--May I confirm M. Jacques Delamain's Observation of HedgeSparrows (antea, p . 19). I saw a similar " display " take place on April gth, 1928, in north Northumberland. The courtship took place on a countryroad and was in progress when I arrived. Thea...
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Letters

01 April 1929
Comments Letters SIRS,--The observations conducted b y Messrs. Ingram and Salmon on the dives of the Long-tailed Duck (antea, p . 264) reopen a veryinteresting question, and one which, I think, is still some way from being satisfactorily answered. In estimating the averag...
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Letters

01 January 1929
Comments Letters SIRS,--May I be spared a little space to invite the attention of your readers to the Annual Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. This Report, the last issue of which you were good enough t...
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Letters

01 December 1928
Comments Letters SIRS,--Will you kindly allow me space to make enquiries concerning the present whereabouts of a clutch of two eggs of the Honey-Buzzard taken in the Quantocks, Somerset, on June 25th, 1899. These eggs were sold a t Stevens's on April 25th, 1906, ex collec...
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Letters

01 October 1928
Comments Letters SIRS,---I read with much interest two notes on the stripping of lime twigs b y Rooks (antea, p . 36). I t would n o t be wise t o conclude t h a t every twig found in this condition had been barked b y Rooks. I have watched a squirrel stripping twigs in a...
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