A Most Norfolk Naturalist Perhaps the most facetious incident I
can recall in the career of naturalists was the removal of a fire escape at Geneva, desired for approaching the elevated nest (so far as I remember) of a honey buriard. The author of that theft, Major Anthony Buxton, has never yet written a book about natural history without humorous and human incidents. His latest, Travelling Naturalist (Collins, 10s. 6d.), following closely on the heels of that most popular volume, Fisherman Naturalist, carries the humour even into the illustrations and into a large variety of places, including Asia Minor and the Pyrenees ; but my choice in chapters is headed " Norfolk." To be purely personal, it is wholly delightful to have pictures and a record of the great hawks that I first saw at the nest at Horsey, which I was told is on the way to becoming a sanctuary, like its greater neighbour Hickling, dedicated in perpetuity to the birds and butterflies, and indeed the plants, including Osmunda Regalis.
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