A Pest Of The Moors
The bird is now the terror of the grouse-moor anywhere near the coast, and deliberately hunts for the young birds. Few small live things are safe from its attacks. Organised......
Weather And Population One May Prophesy From The Weather The
welfare of certain animals - Wet weather in spring alvimys increases the number of rats - and- reduces the 'number of insects. June and -July thunderstorms are recognised as the......
Country Life
An Oversea Comment In talking with a number of the oversea visitors who are visiting our farms, especially the grass farms, and discussing problems at Aberystwyth University, I......
The Worst Bird It Is A Curious Coincidence That Within
the space of a wezk dwellers in Skye, in Jura and in North Devon have told me tales of the lamentable increase of the greater black-backed gull, which is much the most savage of......
Spare The Knife There Is, I Suppose, Little Question That
the rose is the best of all flowering bushes ; but how seldom it is allowed to be a bush ! As a rule it is pruned in the spring so hard that the bush almost vanishes. Yet the......
Starved Grouse • While We Have Lost Some Beautiful And
altogether harmless insects, we have had a plethora of some most offensive insects. The plague of caterpillars in the North is stayed, if only by the natural terms decreed in......
The Vanished Swallow-tail . A Number Of Very Beautiful...
of butterflies were presented to Oxford not so long ago ; and it appears from evidence connected with them as - in other records that the swallow-tail butterfly was once common......
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