2 DECEMBER 1932, page 13

More Woodpeckers.

Further enquiry and information from watchful corre- spondents proves that the new habit of woodpeckers in attack- ing electric poles is much more widespread than I had thought......

A St:ssmx Model.

A model of the right sort of work for the Rural Community Council has been produced in Sussex, a county almost suprene. in county pride. It is nothing inure, and nothing less,......

Vulcanized Bees.

A strange result of the eruptions (not of the political sort) in Chile is reported to me from Argentina. Most Argentines at the time held that the reports of falling dust were......

Pom-poai Roses.

More than once I have sung the praises of the Poulsens, those most glorious of Polyantha roses, and incidentally of the small, more delicate and, because of its quaint salmon......

Country Life

TIn: EXTINCTION OF THE QUAIL. In further reference to the quail, which are caught in vast q uantities on migration in Egypt, I find in a recently published c lassic on Egyptian......

A New Migration.

An old -theory on the migration of birds is weakened, if not destroyed, by news which reaches me from Madagascar, and 1 have found corroboration from other sources. It has been......

A Budget Of Inquiries Has Reached Me About The Publieations

of the Airicultural F,conornics Research Institute at Oxford. The Report for last year and the list of publications and back numbers of Occasional Notes may be had for the......

%lk Snatchers.

News of the spread of this strange taste in woodpeckers reached me by the same post as a photograph of a blue tit making, its way with speed and precision into a milk bottle......