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... NATURE NOTES NATURE NOTES OF BUTTERFLIES AND BIRDS The French call it “L'Aurore’ or ‘‘Dawn’ for the lovely flush of orange on its upper wings. In English it is known, more prosaically, as Orange Tip. Many of these little butterflies fluttered over the ...

... NATURE NOTES NATURE NOTES THE ISLAND MEADOW On “‘the 29th of May, at six in the Afternoon. 1697. the wind at S .E.. Martin Martin embarked for St Kilda from the little beach on Ensay in the Sound of Harris.’ Two hundred and eighty years later, almost ...

... . NATURE NOTES NATURE NOTES TOLSTA HEAD An ambition was realised today when | walked out to Tolsta Head from North Tolsta. Not an overweening ambition you might say for it entails a walk of only a mile and a half over more or less level ground, but the ...

... NATURE NOTES BASKING Sharks were once quite common in the Minch where their iarge dorsal fins were conspicuous in all but rough seas. Nowadays one scarcely ever hears of one being seen there and the recent stranding in Broadbay is all the more remarkable ...

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... Nature Notes Red-billed éueleas in the world, making it the most abundant species. There were 5 to 9 thousand million Passen?'er Pigeons in America until the white man arrived and slaughtered the lot; which just goes to show how beastly we can be when ...

... NATURE NOTES One of the prisoners addressed the crowd from amidst the soldiers who surrounded him, and asked them to ‘go home andlook after the children and kill the hens for food’, while another declared that they had accomplished their object before ...

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... Nature Notes ) U > 3 . Holiday Birds The cvyn wet my lips” i ay that more appro- priate to a Hebridean cre ture than any othe southern Europe, the quail used to be a common gamebird in this country but was The poor, starving children of Israel were suddenly ...

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... Nature Notes o D Ry (8 ved The Greylag Goose The Greylag is generally regarded as the harbinger of changing seasons and it is therefore appropriate in September to look at this bird more ‘closoly. The progenitor of the domestic, farmyard goose, which ...