11 FEBRUARY 1938, page 17

A Plea For The Squirrel An Interesting View Of The

grey squirrel reaches me indirectly from the United States. The animals are, of course, great favourites in the American Parks (and incidentally in the butchers' shops). They......

* * * * Half A Million Stares In Reference

to a census of starling roosts I recorded the other day that the birds proved to be many fewer than the observer had expected on a first impression. There were, for example, so......

The Vanishing Labourer

Some very contradictory verdicts have been pronounced by learned people as to the question of the supply of farm labourers. The facts, so far as my direct experience goes, are......

International Birds Of Course, The Question Is Not...

; and the great decrease in duck, of most sorts, is attributed in no small measure to the great efficiency of the duck decoys abroad, especially in Holland. At one time the......

Country Life

The Armistice When the open season comes to an end on February rst (a day later than was intended in the Act) many people, including many sportsmen, regret that the armistice is......

Weather And Birds

A scholar (though he is no naturalist) writes to me to make his contribution to the discussion prevailing on the subject whether birds, especially thrushes, sing during a storm......

Battle For The Buds A Duel Of Several Years' Duration

against blue and great tits has at last been triumphantly won without bloodshed and amid general rejoicings. Every year, beginning in January, the tits devoured wholesale the......