5 APRIL 1940, page 18

Spring Visitors When Spring Sets In, Even " With Its

usual severity," hun- dreds of observers record the date of arrival of the first immi- grant birds, which included before March was out sand- martins, as well as wheat-ear and......

Art

British Painting since Whistler. " At the National Gallery. IN general—a well-arranged exhibition, well worth arranging. But debit side first. The usual mixed-exhibition......

Returning Duck It Is A Surprise To Find That The

experiences of bird observers near London and in the extreme West of Wales have been closely similar in recent months. On the great London water reservoirs, as on the new decoy......

The Pilgrims To The Federal Mountains

SEE, we are set for mountains, and though they lie below the horizon still we go to them. Some of us know the gains that such a conquest brings, and others fill knapsacks with......

Country Life

Revolutionary Ploughs How very different are East and West England, not le. :a on the farm. More tilth is just an incident to the Eastern farm or country house. It is a......

White Stoats

Whether the cause was the hard winter, or some freak of albinism, I do not know, but that rarity of the south, the white stoat, has been seen in two places in Hertfordshire. One......