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... 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. Of all our resident species of birds none has a more peculiar indi% iduality or more interesting habits than the water-ouzel, or, as it is better known, the dipper. It is impossible to mistake this bird, which is somewhat less in size than ...

... 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 ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE PIED FLYCATCHER. Nearly everybody mho has any interest in the bird-life of our country is familiar with the dainty-looking and somewhat sombreplumaged spotted flycatcher, and most of us have watched it repeatedly darting and circling ...

... 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 ...

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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, ...

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... 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. THE REAL SAFEGUARD AGAINST INFLUENZA. Wincamis can enable anyone to successfully resist' NOTE.—FiII in, cut out, and send with three penny neuena if it is taken daily and is assisted by a reasonable stamps to pay the cost of postagt. ...