Legitimate Clutches
Starker treatment of collectors of birds' eggs is urged by the excellent Society of Bird Watchers and Wardens, and is to form the basis of a Parliamentary Bill. Oologists have......
A Tame Tit We Are All So Fond Of Birds
in these days (and not in the Tom Tulliver sense) that we may feel surprised at their want of tameness. Not one naturalist in a hundred has ever touched a live bird or fed it by......
Country Life
Walking to School We picked up a small child trudging along the road. She explained that when you were nine years old you had to pay for your own omnibus, so she was instructed......
London Herons A Large And Gorgeous Bird That Seems To
be joining the very large company whom London attracts is the heron. I hear of great numbers—six or eight at a time—being seen on some of the waters along the western edge of......
A Carrier Teal A New Problem Is Added To The
old controversy whether birds can carry their own young. A schoolmaster in Bird Notes and News gives evidence of teal carrying off their babes, one after the other, to a......
Are Keepers Keepers ?
No member of our community is more freely abused on account of his profession than the " keeper," so called, who for the first time is to come under the unemployment scheme ;......
A Korean Flower Among The Delicate Coloured Illustrations...
latest issue of Curtis's Botanical Magazine (Quarterly, 17s. 6d.) is a picture of Oldham's gypsophila which should be much more widely cultivated than it is. The plant was first......
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