Elizabethan Birds Kites Always Nested In Wales, A Great Land
for the hawks. Did not Elizabethan hawkers stipulate for peregrines from St. David's Head? The R.S.P.B. has an interesting note on the kite's history : " The bird was one of the......
A Flock Of Wagtails One Of The Curiosities Of Natural
history observed in recent years was the discovery of a flock of wagtails roosting together in the heart of Dublin. The following account of a little congregation of these birds......
* * * * A Sussex Fish A Quaint Point
or two in ichthyology—or architectural ichthyology—is discussed in the wholly admirable Sussex County Magazine, issued monthly from 4 Pevensey Road, Eastbourne. The weathercock......
Scottish Fish We Still Await In Southern And Easterly...
the rising of the wells and the re-emergence of the valley springs. No sign is yet vouchsafed of recovery from the longest drought in the chronicles. Some of the streams that......
* * * * Local Art In Older Days The
Rnglish village came very near the Aristotelian ideal of self-sufficiency. It could thatch its own stacks or houses, find its own water and dig its own wells, make many of its......
Old Crafts Anyone Who Desires To Absorb The Tradition Of
the local craft will find Mr. Hennell's well-stored book an invaluable aid. Sometimes he strays pleasantly outside his strict thesis. There is a little diseursus, for example,......
Country Life
Horse and Scythe Days A revived interest in rural crafts is -very evident, and is very well directed by the Bureau of Rural industries, who issue an admirable and very modest......
Watch The Kite.
A special plea—and a very persuasive coloured picture— has been sent out by the Royal Society for the Preservation of Birds to ask landowners and others to take particular care......
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