A New Bird.
We may now, I think, feel confident that those engaging birds, the crossbills, are quite permanently established in England in considerable numbers. One colony is already......
Periodic Variations.
The ups and downs of the population of birds are hard to understand. Like some of the mammals they seem to illustrate some untraceable law of periodicity. The redstart is a......
Some Aspects Of The Artificiality—perhaps The Necessary...
as practised in a crowded country, may astonish even the accustomed observer. A fisherman said to me the other day that he did not regard it as a drawback to a particular stream......
Country Life A Treeless Landscape.
The following letter reaches me from a resident on the edge of Stratford-on-Avon :- " Yesterday the crime was perpetrated which you foreshadowed in a recent contribution to the......
Little Deer.
One the most charming additions to the Regent's Park Zoo is of the little Pudu deer, which is rather less large than a fox. Now another deer, the Muntjaek, which is not much......
The Close Season.
Even sportsmen may enjoy the arrival of the close season, which begins just one day later than the law-giver intended, for the first of February is not close but open. It would......
More Silver Foxes.
The alien of the moment in many parts of the world is undoubtedly the silver fox, which seems to be peculiarly well suited to the British climate from Dartmoor to Sutherland-......
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