7 APRIL 1939, page 18

Country Life

The Strangest Migration The strangest of all the recorded marvels of bird migration is carried a step further by the latest news from Skokholm, that " dream island " which......

The Pembroke Coast Those Splendid Bird-beloved...

Grasholm, home of seals as well as gannets, lie off a coast that is in tune with them. There is a scheme for making a long strip of this Pembrokeshire coast into a National Park......

The Way Of A Butterfly A Curiosity Of Migration, In

the kingdom not of birds, but of butterflies, has been recorded in the West Indies. Hosts of butterflies—one was estimated at zo,000—have been watched on purposeful journeys......

In The Garden Votaries Of The Sort Of Garden That

may be called Rock t Alpine or Scree, or in one aspect Moraine, may claim certain superiority over other gardeners. They do much mot( travelling in search of the flowers that......

Birds And Rabbits

The birds of Skokholm, as well as any would-be farmer there, are deleteriously affected by the immense population of rabbits. The animals themselves often suffer much from......

Slads The Word Slad Or Slade (applied In My Neighbourhood

to an offshoot of Grirruns Dyke) has enjoyed as wide a vogue as the rarer, and more difficult, slype. The discussion on the meaning may be concluded with two comments, one from......