29 AUGUST 1941, page 9

Counting Herons

By R. S. R. FITTER S T. JAMES'S STREET, Walthamstow, does not at sight look the right starting-point for a bird-watch expedition—words that conjure up visions of the flat t......

This Turtling World

By DOROTHY BLACK I KNEW an Indian poet once, who was a prophet without being aware of the fact. He was also a sanitary inspector, on a rice mill on the Banks of the great......