... NATURE NOTES A rhange in the weather has at last brought the Lesser CeEindine into flower—fully six weeks later than some previous records at Aberystwyth. A Blackthorn (the Myrobella) has been in flower in the Rheidol Valley for near a week The Elm is ...

... NATURE NOTES. 111.-MRDS OF THE. WEEK. No hi e d id so ae the tAnimaistliumard ilduteo Vulgaris). Ala.! common no longer. Persistent persecution has been all, too duccessful for that, and except in some teclutied lecidities the buzzard is compataeively ...

... •'''''''' '‘NATURE NOTES. IV.-818.D9 OF WEEK For the last three weeks the rooks back at tkeir rookery by the church. For out of mind have they built their large in meanie or singly in or near the topmost branches of the high elms and sootch fus of the ...

... NATURE NOTES. VL-BIRD6 01 THE WEEK. Every week the chorus of birds' sellge Swells. louder, as new voices join hi th res hes, eirattiue.hes,' hedge-sparioss, tits, wrens and golden-crested), greenfinehes, and yellow-hionmers are inking their parts in the ...

... NATURE NOTES. VU-BIRDS OF THE WEEK Which ia the moat beautiful British birat Of course like all beauty it is a matter of taste, and in making oar choice many things must be taken into consideration. If bee*? in Birdland were a matter of brilliant colour ...

... NATURE NOTES. VilL -BIRDS OF TliE That well-known writer on birds Mr Wade ttrwler declares in his Summer Studies of Birds and Books that on a desert ieland, without a human creature to share ite solitude with him, he would be happy enough it only wagtails ...

... NATURE NOTES IX.-BIRDS OF , WEE The simplest bird's neat is indeed a ma-terpiece; and when we examine some of the more complicated kinds, and think that they have been constructed with no tools slept the 'bird's beak and slaws, and with as material except ...

... NATURE NOTES BIRD NOTES.-I the 180 species of birds that , an properly be called British 36 are summer visitors. They arrin here in spring to breed. and depart in late summer or early .iutumn to winter in mme sunnier clime; Attics. India, China. and parts ...

... NATURE NOTES. BIRD NOTE.-XI. All bird-lovers esperience feolings of grief and indignation at the way many of our most attractive and valuable birds are stupidly destroyed. Even if their beauty ;lid not weigh in their favour in this materialistic, moneymaking ...

... NATURE NOTES BIRD, arrival of the vuckoo is an idazual eies which everyone looks forward to. W oho it its. load ringing : . call May would sot be My fur u. More than any othe; sound in Nature it us koftea. prematurely) the joymit days of summer are at ...

... NATURE NOTES. BIRD NOTES.-XIV. To continue with ot the probletus connected the cuckoo there is its alleged power of matching 1b with those of the selected foster-parent.. How far this power 16 posseesed by the bird i a debatable question. Some remarkable ...

... an overwhelming majority of the people regard as necessary and just.—The 'Manchester ' Guardian . ' for May 20th, 1920. NATURE NOTES. ...