26 NOVEMBER 1937, page 17

The Tree Sense

The Coronation Planting Committee still wish to be informed of all the local efforts, which are now nearly complete. The idea has chimed in well with the ideals of that......

A Tin Drum

Now for this observer's evidence. Last May he and some of his neighbours were awakened, and indeed disturbed, each morning by a loud noise that sounded metallic. After a......

Song Or Drum?

Some of the inferences to be drawn from this queer experi- ence seem to be obvious. The woodpecker preferred the metal to the wood because it made a louder sound, and, as seems......

County Pride It Is A Good Sign That The Counties

are becoming more county., conscious ; and in the right way. Even those whose cardinal danger is to become a London dormitory are developing a proper county pride. In this class......

A Bird Controversy An Old Controversy On A Nice Point

in natural history has just broken loose again, and by an odd coincidence a corre- spondent sent me—on the eve of the dispute—the best evidence that it has ever been my lot to......

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Devon's Lure Devon (which dislikes the word Devonshire) joins in one society the privilege of bird watching and rural preser- vation, though the birds receive the greater......

Country Life

Hoar Frost The beauty of the first hard frosts has set a flourish on the departing glories of autumn. The fringe of rime on leaf and bent surpassed the excesses of the old......