... EMMVOOD'S AVIARY: AO. 11 A bird whose capture is achieved by the hunter uttering a low, glutinous humming note, which plunges it into a trance ADULT FEMALE General colour pinkish, inclined to be freckled on beak and mandibles often tufted at head extremities, the bird may be found with long and lank head feathers often impairing the sight of one or both eyes beak squat body feathers, outer ...

... A Dickens Classic Is Filmed-- Scenes From NICHOLAS NICKLEBY ...

... -- by Graham by Graham ...

... IN A GUNNERS' MESS SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND A quiet moment in the lives of the hoys as makes the noise, the Royal Artilleree and they still can make a lot of noise when required, in spite of the Air Force having stolen some of their thunder. The marvellously good shooting done recently by one section of the Royal Regiment, the Archies, will have been noted by one and all and likewise and ...

... by Mel Mel ...

... by The Tout Bright Lady won the Ascot Cesarewitch for Sidney McGregor, who is part owner of her sire, April the Fifth, winner of the 1932 Derby in the colours of Tom Walls. S/Ldr. Humphrey Foster was a leading apprentice attached to Digby's stable before the war. Since then he has earned more laurels in the skies, but found time recently to pay a visit to the scenes of his former successes on ...

... Crockford's Club by MeL CrockfortTs, in Carlton House Terrace, is the oldest mixed bridge club in London, and among its members are players of outstanding ability, some of whom are caricatured above ...

... BRIGGS by Graham Graham ...

... By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley-Beuttler This operation evidently is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow the wire tackle has got fouled and a stevedore is trying to improve matters with a capstan bar. On deck the guy rope steadying the tank inboard has run amok on the winch-barrel, making corkscrew turns through the hands of the bald-headed stevedore in the foreground, whose mate, the driver of ...

... WESTMINSTER WARRLERS (so. EMMWOOD'S Now that the singing season is over this bird is mournfully building its nest, a large and somewhat bleak structure made almost entirely of scrap iron ADULT MALE General colour above faintly pink, with ashy-fulvous tufts on the dome of the head and to the rear of the mandibles beak curved, inclined to russet when roused body feathers sombre in colour, except ...

... R.N., B.E.F., R.A.F., AND OTHERS, PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION THE eighth of MERLIN'S ENCHAN TRESSES makes her bow to 44 SKETCH readers this week. MER LIN, namesake of the Wizard of Arthurian Legend, is the young artist who has created a special series of studies of fascinating and piquante girls whose gay and light-hearted grace will captivate Sketch readers, just as Kirchner's ...

... . 44 He 's taking a conjurer with him to be sure of a rabbit. DRAWN BY L. B. MARTIN. 44 You never know there might be a conductress on board. DRAWN BY PETER ENDER. I can't ask you to dine with me but I U do my best to get you on to a delegation we 're sending to New York next month. DRAWN BY KENNETH BEAUCHAMP. ...