The Marvellously Splendid Tail Of The Peacock Is Held To
be the issue of natural selection, and displayed chiefly for the purpose of attracting the admiration of the hen-bird. It would be rash to dispute with the Darwinians, but the......
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Peacock Pugnacity There is a certain country house in a delectable western valley whose groves and meadows and ponds are very thickly populated with birds, domestic and others,......
Many Gardeners Perhaps Are Apt To Forget That Late Summer
is planting time as well as flowering time. What a number of things ought to be put into the earth now or a very little later. In " fantastic summer heat " we must, in spite of......
A Bird Superstition
On the subject of peacocks—a particularly mean form of pilfering has been frequently practised on the outskirts of a famous park where many pheasants have their being. Motorists......
Country Life
Cosmetic Botany A clash of ideals (associated with ardent co-operation and mutual esteem) is still dividing in some measure the authors , and begetters of the Roads Beautifying......
In The Long List Of Harvests That Are Good, Not
to say bumper, there is one exception: the bees have not enjoyed recent weather. The honey-flow about apple-blossom time was rich and the hives (weighed daily in one apiary at......
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Common Rarities Since writing the other day of the fate of a young bird, a lesser spotted or barred woodpecker, I have come upon much evidence that this once rather rare bird is......
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