Si Monrsimirtim. . . .
Everycna who is concerned for the preservation of rural England has long been grateful to the Dean of St. Paul's for his invention of the word " Bungaloid," which has had as......
This Marvellously Green And Open Winter Has Brought Into The
open the peculiar charms and usefulness of two fair cousins, Julia and Juliana Gloria. The younger, with the longer name, is the better of the two ; but both have been flowering......
This Is Old History. I Imagine That Such Trade No
longer continues, for the Zoo in any country is the institution that can best supply the public with the tame birds that it desires. It was, for example, one of the incidental......
The Mortality Among Birds Caught For The Cage Market Is
very high. Years ago I got on to the tracks of a trapper who caught large numbers of tree-creepers by the device of a sort of wire bracket treated with bird lime, and fixed to......
No Act Of Local Preservation Has Been More Ardently And
indeed more wisely carried out than the salvation of the parts of Stoke Poges especially hallowed to the poet Gray. It is the fashion to belittle the " Elegy " as sentimental......
Country Life
Wwarcx WORKERS ARE WANTED. It is lamented everywhere and accepted as a fact that emigration from Britain to other and emptier parts of the Empire is as good as dead. There is no......
Caged Birds.
A Bill is presently to be introduced in the House of Lords to prohibit, among other undesirable things, the caging of wild birds. Now, captivity is not necessarily painful or......
So Far, So Good ; But This Captivity, Like This
freedom, has to be learned. A wild bird is miserable in conditions that give its optimum of contentment to the bird bred in captivity. More than this : we know beyond......
Now The C.p.r.e. Has Invented A New Sort Of Book.
It sprang, I think, from the quick brain of Mr. Abercrombie, Professor of Civics (whatever they are) in the University of Liverpool. His survey, in co-operation with a Kentish......
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