It Is Not Known—or So I Believe—which Sort Of Woodpecker
is responsible. That part of England is a favourite resort of the greater-spotted woodpecker ; and a good naturalist of the neighbourhood has made some curious discoveries about......
Perhaps The Starling Should Be Included. His Hordes...
his days) are to be numbered. Mr. Marples, of the zoological department of the University of Manchester, is attempting this winter to make a census of its chief roosts and......
The Sins Of The Little Owl Have Certainly Been Exaggerated
and its good acts unrecognized. Compared with the carrion crow it is angelic. Mr. Gilbert, who is one of the most thorough and enterprising of the world's bird observers, is at......
The Multiplication Of The Starlings—on The Whole A Very...
tribe—is fantastic ; but it is not due chiefly to the breeding of the birds in Britain. The winter visitors, which have multiplied universally within a generation, are, or may......
Lovers Of Birds—and Eggs.
An almost savage attack on oologists is printed in the latest number of Bird Notes and News, the organ of the R.S.P.B. (82 Victoria Street). It is worth wide notice on many......
Perverted Instincts In Respect Of Food Are Not Uncommon. We
have examples both in the little owl and the grey squirrel. It has just been discovered that the little owl (which kills young birds in order to use their poor little bodies as......
The Only Theory That Has Been Put Forward Is That
the birds mistake the low hum of the wire for the note of an insect ! Now, some insects rejoice in telegraphic, if not in electric apparatus ; for the insulators on telegraph......
* * Our Wonderful Autumn.
Our autumn still in November keeps in touch with summer. Phlox is flowering freely above the primulas ; the bees are active ; several birds are in song and the hibernating......
Country Life
THE WOODPECKERS' MISTAKE. A little curiosity of natural history which some naturalists were disposed to disbelieve—and belief was certainly hard —has been probed and tested ;......
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