A NATURE CALENDAR.
A charming Nature Calendar, just published by an artist with a seeing eye, Mr. E. F. Dagleish (Dent and Sons), opens with the obvious mendacity that January is a " cold ungenial month "—so do the surprises of our climate give the lie to the very elect. Did not I receive . this January lists of thirty to forty flowers in blossom ? The temperature was of June and the barometer soared to unknown heights. However, Mr. Dagleish clearly enjoys even a characteristic January, though perhaps it is not his month, for he is particularly good on mammals—many of which are sleeping in warm security, and insects, which also are hibernating or are unborn. He is, I think, definitely wrong about the winter food of the great tit. He eats the buds, when he does take to this form of food, for the sake of the bud, not the alleged bug ; and in my experience other birds are much more persistent bud-eaters than the tits.
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