... NATURE NOTE. YELLOW-HAMMER'S SIMPLE CALL Amid the rapidly diminishing volume and variety of bird-song, the yellowhammer's shorts and simple call for bread and no cheese still comes from the hedge-tops. It is the most easily recognised of any song ...

... NATURE NOTE. THE WANDERING VOICE OF THE CORNCRAKE. Cycling along a dusty road, I surprised in the hedge bottom a thin, straggly bird. which, with a short and awkward flight and dangling legs, went into the trees at my approach. It was a corncrake. It ...

... NATURE NOTE. BIRDS IN THE IRISH SEA. By W. CRO3IL It did not strike nic till the other day. when I crossed f Dunhary to Holyhead a cloudless trununer day and on a smooth and sea, that one bird far outnumbered all others on that . particular piece of water ...

... A NATURE NOTE. THE SILENCE OF JULY. A bird.. hush fro more doesisfallingonth eeseoe hest the cuckoo's voice where it has been slant all the spring and early sumaec The thrushes, the warblers, ths finches are one by one settline into autumn silence. A ...

... A NATURE NOTE. In An English Wood. As I was wandering in a wood the other day. listening to tho spring chorus of the birds—the blackbird. now all whistling, and thrushes. robin=. wrens, hedge-accentors , and distinctly, all in chorus, broken now and again ...

... A NATURE NOTE. BY HEDGEROW AND FIELD. It is better at this season to choose the country lane with high banks and 'not too trim hedges than take a path over meadows. and end up by following a stream until it brings one back to the high road, au old village ...

... A NATURE NOTE BIRDS IN SEPTEMBER. By W. M. CROOK. Among the pine and larch woods in the Surrey hills which fortunately escaped destruction during the war large flocks of titmice may now be observed. Many of them are long-tailed tits, one of the most beautiful ...

... A NATURE NOTE. THE JAY. Wherever there ale woods and no a! tempi is made to preserve the gimebirds which nest in or near them the jays flourish. Their squawk is, there;ore, one of the familiar sounds all the year round. _ _ The gameiceeper classes them ...

... 4 NATURE NOTE• THE LONDON SPARROW By W. M. CROOK. A shim time tgo. %bile sitting at dinner in a a eillaton London dub, I wag attonialred *heti a Wend of mine, exceptionally well-read and intelligent man. assured me that he did not know the difference ...

... A NATURE NOTE. THE WILLO if- WARBLER Sitting on a wide stretch of common in Hampshire, in warm sunlight, shel• tered from a cool wind by a dense clump of fume, I heard all round ma the plaintive call-note of the willowwarbler. At first I could not locate ...

... JULY 22, 1905. NATURE NOTE.;. ...

... A NATURE NOTE. THE FIRST SWALLOWS. This Easter the first swallows of the summer have reached the Midlands. They came 'single spies. I saw one flying in a high wind over a canal and another over the chimneys of Birmingham on Easter Monday. It will Out ...