The Frenchman Is, I Think, A Maligned Bird. It Is
very hardy ; but is it really very bellicose'? It is supposed to drive off the English or Hungarian bird ; but one observer, at any rate, is of opinion that the English bird is......
How Much Knowledge Has Increased Does Not Appear To Be
generally realized. I say this because lectures have been recently delivered in which a number of the exploded theories of ten years ago have been repeated. I have been......
Harvest Problems.
Birds occupy much place in the "happy autumn fields" where harvesters work and sportsmen walk. In the South and Midlands we have seen the quickest—and latest— clearing of the......
Country Life
MIGRATION DISCOVERIES. THE autumnal migration is in full activity and obvious to us all. It is still, as of old, a deep mystery ; but thanks to those neat little altuninium......
• We Have No Idea How These Callow Travellers Find
their way, but the young cuckoo—and the point is very important— has an overwhehning inner compulsion to flysomewhere, anywhere—in autumn. I discussed this at great length years......
Every Detail Of This Movement Of Birds Has A Problem
; and the details are numberless because the different species have entirely different ways. The most eccentric—and immoral—bird in our _British list is the cuckoo ; and......
Partridges, French And English.
The rapid clearing of the fields and the date have disclosed the nakedness of the land to sportsmen. In some eastern districts the only partridges are old partridges.; and the......
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