17 FEBRUARY 1933, page 13

The Tramps As Waterway.

Perhaps the best things written about the Thames within the memory of most of us come from Mr. C. J. Cornish, who spent much of his life in the Thames Valley in or near London.......

Another Sort Of Census Of Birds Is Kept By Many

gardeners and .private observers. It may interest them to have a very exact and careful list kept by a scientific observer on the outskirts of Bath. In or over her garden of a......

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ANIMAL FRIENDSHIPS. SORID very quaint examples of friendships between different animals—a jackdaw and a donkey, a lamb and a dog, a parrot and a cat—are collected in the......

Trees I Have Met.

The editor of the smallest of Quarterlies, The Tree Lovers, has just published a tiny and dainty pamphlet called "Trees I Have Met" (De La More Press). His pen and pencil, both......

One Of The Most Curious Attributes Of A Dog's Mind

is its sense of ownership. For example : a very intelligent black cocker spaniel belonging to a neighbour is almost foolishly devoted to his master whom he accompanies in his......

The Starling Roosts, Of Which A Census Is Being Taken

at -Cambridge, are being most thoroughly plotted. Young observers—in Hertfordshire, e.g.—have made complete charts of all the roosts within a wide district. A part of the......

Country Life

PUTTING TRE VILLAGER Wise. A singular advance in the art and business of revivifying village life is being made good in Oxfordshire, which is the pioneer county in such work.......

A Starling From Memel.

In the annals of British birds this winter has been historical. Never, I think, have so many birds visited Britain from over- seas, and never have so many individual migrations......