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NATURE NOTES. 
SELBORNIANA. 
An Appeal to Selbornians.— Last year at this season we gave some 
“ Hints for the Holidays,” which appeared to us needed, and which we were 
glad to learn met with general acceptance. We have no intention of repeating 
them, although we would remind our readers of their existence, and suggest that 
their re-perusal might prove useful. But we will renew the appeal we then made on 
behalf of the Children’s Country Holiday Fund, by means of which no fewer than 
25,568 London children were sent last year into the country for a fortnight each, 
with most gratifying results. Space — or the want of it — will not allow us to do more 
than commend this most deserving charity to the warm support of Selbornians, 
and urge them to send for the report of the work during 1892 to the Secretary, Mr. 
Cyril Jackson, 10, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. Fifteen shillings will ensure 
a fortnight’s country holiday for one child, and we trust that many readers of 
Nature Notes will take this means of assuring to others the pleasure of life out 
of doors, which they themselves so greatly enjoy. 
Lantern Slides (pp. 93, 114). — According to my promise in last month’s 
Notes, I now submit a list of birds which I have been able to copy from books by 
permission of the publishers, viz., from Pouchet’s Universe, by permission of 
Messrs. Blackie & Sons : — 
Magpie and nest. 
Longtailed Titmouse and nest. 
Wren and nest. 
Barn Owl and nest. 
Goshawk and nest. 
Cuckoo killin’ 
And from Buckland’s edition of White’s 
Macmillan & Co. : — 
Swallow. 
Swift. 
Housemartin. 
Wryneck. 
Gold Crested Wren. 
Cuckoo. 
Waterhen and nest. 
Reed Warbler and nest. 
Swallow and nest. 
Golden Oriole and nest. 
Redwing. 
; Wrens. 
Selborne, by permission of Messrs. 
Nightingale. 
Hoopoe. 
Bullfinch. 
Hawfinch. 
Butcher Bird. 
Wheatear. 
Blackcap. 
From all these I have been able to prepare very fair lantern slides, and some of 
them have been coloured by the kindness of Mrs. Wheatcroft, the wife of the hon. 
local sec. of our branch. I hope to have some other British birds ready very 
shortly, and by the time the lecture season begins I shall be pleased to lend a 
selection of the birds, together with my lantern slides of Selborne, to any other 
branch, provided the executive will undertake to pay carriage both ways, promise 
not to let them be copied, and make known the source of the pictures, with due 
acknowledgment to the publishers for their courtesy, as these are the conditions 
under which I obtained permission to copy at all. The slides are of such density 
that they may be shown in the lantern or as transparencies on a proper stand on a 
table with an opal shaded lamp behind, or in a window ; I find the latter a very 
popular and convenient way of showing transparencies when a lantern is not 
available, or for daylight meetings. 
Bath. E. J. Appleby. 
The “ Osprey ” again. — A correspondent sends us the following letter 
“ I purchased a hat at a London milliner's the other day, and on objecting to the 
‘ osprey ’ was told that it was only an imitation, not the real osprey at all. I 
enclose two pieces ; the grey I think is unquestionably genuine osprey, the other 
certainly does not look like the same, and I am inclined to believe that it is 
made from some finely split quill. If this is so, the outcry about the amount of 
osprey worn again is a false alarm, as this is the kind almost universally worn at 
present, as the other does not give the stiff erect effect required.” 
We forwarded the specimens to Mrs. Brightwen, who expressed her belief 
that both were “ osprey,” but forwarded them to a professional expert for his 
