... NATURE NOTES The cheeky sparrow Interest In natural history subjects grows apace, but It Is not everyone who wishes to go into the subject thoroughly, or, indeed, who has the time to take up the matter seriously. In these notes the writer will try to ...

... NATURE NOTES The thrushes The thrush is probably one of the most familiar birds to the average person, but how many, people know that we have no less than five types of the family resident in, or visitant to, the British Isles. They are the missel thrush ...

... NATURE NOTES The Blackbird The blackbird, probably the most elegant of the thrush family, is very largely a ground dweller, and in flying rarely attains a great height. It is the cock bird, however, with his shiny black plumage and golden bill which earns ...

... NATURE NOTES Two winter visitors To finish up our description of the British thrushes we will take this week the two winter migrants, the fieldfare and the redwing. These birds come to our Islands every autumn from their nesting haunts in the far north ...

... NATURE NOTES A familiar gull Recently we were discussing the blackbird—let us this week to the opposite extreme. To most people any white bird seen at the seaside is just a sea-gull, and yet round our coasts we have no less than six or seven species of ...

... NATURE NOTES The farmers friend? That one of the commonest birds of our countryside should be called by wrong name nine people out of ten Is surprising. yet so it with the rook, which most people refer to as the crow. Even Lord Tennyson, in Locksley Hall ...

... curative HIIBI mi,,er » l •Pring*. DUBLIN Trained Medical Staff and Masseurs EIRE attendance. Write to Manager for tern*. nature notes The tides Many people, even those usually '“'ell informed, are often puzzled at to why the tide rises and falls. reason ...

... Calwell, Carryduff, and Dr. Hayes, Divisional Officer of Health, and to proceed with the purchase of essential eqc.ipment. NATURE NOTES The jackdaw Although one of the most constant inhabitants of human dwellings, the jackdaw Is always suspicious and wary ...

... sponsor the compilation and publication of a new edition of the Union Catalogue of Periodicals in Northern Ireland libraries. NATURE NOTES The cream stealers Among: the many families of | small birds which inhabit our country probably none Is more ' interesting ...

... NATURE NOTES The long tails Last week the great tit was described in this column, and this week I intend to deal with the long tailed tit, the most delightful and interesting the species. Of a white, black, and pink plumage, his long tall the most prominent ...

... NATURE NOTES The Swallows The swallows are with again and will soon be nesting. But when use the word swallow we want to be quite sure to which bird are referring. There are three varieties of the family which visit the British Isles every summer for ...

... NATURE NOTES The Martins Last week our subject was the swallow, and this week I intend to write little about his two cousins, the house martin and the sand martin. Both are summer visitors to these islands and both hawk for their food on the wing like ...