4 AUGUST 1939, page 18

One Of The Writers Of The Charming Tale Of The

birds (in- cluding even the sandpiper and the jay) in Hyde Park is surely in error in reporting " flocks " of long-tailed tits. These tiny birds are not great travellers and......

The Best Settlers The Best Of All Forms Of Empire

migration or of the return to the land is found in the Fairbridge Schools which have just published the record of the year's advances. There are now four of these schools. A......

In The Garden

The most plutocratic garden in England has been opened to the public once a week until the end of July, and as there is much apprehension that the treat may not be repeated next......

Country Life

The Harvest Month Harvest has begun, but the bulk of it is late, not early, and still awaits hot sunshine to set the flourish on it. The immense yield of English grain crops,......

London Birds— One Of Common Phenomena Of The Date Is

the return of the gulls to town after their three months' absence in the nurseries; and it becomes more notable. At one time they were confined almost entirely to the small,......

Urban Influences

London, which is so congenial to birds, is strangely hostile to most butterflies and to a good many plants. The cocoons of the butterflies are apt to be all eaten out by an......

—and Nests

The gulls are in London only out of the breeding season. What most astonishes, in this really wonderful record, is the number of birds that breed in the Royal Parks. Kew Gardens......