A Partridge Farm
Two queries have reached me about the zoological meaning of a reference in the speech of the chairman at the annual meeting of the I.C.I. The research work to which he referred......
A Bumfit Flourish
Some while ago I quoted a shepherd's sing-song numeration from the Sussex Downs. In her altogether charming little tale of her country experiences Miss Nancy Price, deserting......
Country Life
Harvest and Haysel In many more places than is usual—in Scotland, as in Wales and England—we shall see this year the ceincidence of harvest and haysel. For various reasons......
Multiplying Birds I Have Just Visited These Several...
circumnavigated them. The birds' appreciation of their benefactors leaps to the eye. There are more puffin and perhaps more shear- Water on Skomer than there have ever been.......
The Friendly 'goldcrest In A Beautiful Warwickshire...
Shakespeare country is a small pleasingly thatched aviary where a number of small Australian birds have their being. They Make a happy noise from 'morning to night, and breed......
Four Sanctuaries Off The Coast Of Pembrokeshire Are Four...
Skomer, Grassholm and Ramsey (familiar to me for years) that are marked out for bird sanctuaries. I have more than once urged their preservation for this purpose ; and suggested......
Large Families Partridges Have Been Secured From Many...
Britain, from Scandinavia and,_ of course from Hungary, which is the partridges' paradise. They mate together freely, and show that marital fidelity and parental altruism which......
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