March, 1893. 
No. 39. VoL. IV. 
7 ?’ 
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.OCicTYS 
RGH'ZiNC 
Edited by 
JAMES BRITTEN. F.L.S. 
CONTENTS. 
A POET OF P:ARLY SPRING 4' 
By the Editor. 
WHITE OF SELBORNE 
HORSE CHESTNUT BUDS.. 
By Bessy Holland. 
“THE DEATH OF CORTES” .. 
THE LAST OF THE KINGFISHERS 
By A. T. Johnson. 
WINTER ACONITES 5i 
Bv Richard F. Towndrow. 
FOOTPATHS 
FIELD PHILOSOPHY 
By the Rev. John Gerard. 
SHORT NOTICES OF BOOKS 
SELBORNIANA 
The Excursion to Selborne. 
The Birds of New Zealand. 
Bird Catchers. 
Lantern Slides. 
Folk Songs. 
NAtVrAL^“h\sTO#NOTES and QUERIES 57 
Daily flight of Rooks. 
Memory in Birds. 
Cockchafers. 
Squirrel Mobbed by Birds. 
Natterjack Toad. 
Birds and Lighthouses. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS .. .. 59 
BR.ANCHES OF THE SELBORNE SOCIETY 60 
lonOon : 
JOHN BALE & SONS, 
87-89, Great Titchfield Street, W. 
City Agent : — 
J. I. BAXTER, 
29, Paternoster Square E.C. 
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PRICE TWOPENCE. 
