... NATURE NOTES. SPRING MIGRATION OF BIRDS. The second Report of the Migration Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Union has recently been published, and the records of the spring of 1906 prove extremely interesting, while the various maps ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE RIIO OUZEL. There are two species among our British birds that go by tbis ram: of ouzel—the ring ouzeCof the moorlands, and the water ouzel of the rippling streams ; the latter more suitably known now among ornithologists as the dipper ...

... NATURE NOTES. BIRDS OF WINTER. The great movement of birds in the autumn towards more southerly latitudes and more agreeable winter quarters deprives our islands of many a familiar species. The arching and squealing swifts, the crepuscular nightjar, have ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE PROTECTION OF RARE BIRDS. That much can be done towards the protection and increase of our rarer birds has been proved this year by the indefatigable efforts of a little band of workers, members of the British Ornithologists' Union, ...

... NATURE NOTES. Seeing that a single generation sufficed to witness the practical extinction of the American Bison, it is little wonder that the European Bovidae, the European Bison, or Wisent, and the Urus, or Aurochs, disappeared centuries ago, in the ...

... NATURE NOTES. DESERTION OF ROOKERIES. The sudden desertion of rookeries by the gregarious tenants has always been a puzzle to thost• interested in bird-life, for in most cases the cause of the desertion has been quite inexplicable. Rooks are not by any ...

... NATURE NOTES. EARLY NESTING OF BIRDS. At this time of the year one constantly sees in different journals letters or notes trcm correspondents recording, as it phenomenal, the early nesting of certain birds, usually the thrush. It is a mistake to think ...

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... NATURE NOTES. THIE CURLEW. Why is it that the birds of the moorlands and the wild wastelands arc so popular among bird-lovers? It is because their general character and habits partake of the wildness and freedom of their haunts; their cries arc wild, ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE PIED WAGTAIL This is quite a common British bird, and is probably so familiar to every reader that no description of it is necessary. A letter in one of the daily papers the other day indicates that a movement of the pied wagtail has ...

... NATURE NOTES. NEW ZEALAND BIRDS. With such a wandering family as birds the ordinary po!itical boundaries and divisions of the earth have no signi:icance to the student ; the birds of a country, and still more the birds of a county, are only of a purely ...

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