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Full text of 'THE LIBRARYOFTHE UNIVERSITYOF CALIFORNIALOS ANGELESTHE BOOK OF A NATURALISTW. HUDSONTHE BOOK OFA NATURALISTW. H.HUDSONAuthor of'The Naturalist inLaPlata'Green Mansions',' etc.NEW ^tBT YORKGEORGE H.
DORAN COMPANYCOPYRIGHT, 1919BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANYPRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICACollegeLibraryPREFACEIT is necessary that a book should have a title, andimportant that this should be descriptive of the book:accordingly, I was pleased with my good fortune andmyself when I hit upon one which was not merelydescriptive but was attractive as well.This was a long time ago when these studies,essays and sketches of animal life began to accumu-late on my hands and I foresaw the book.
Unhappily,long before my book was ready my nice title hadoccurred to some one else and was duly given by SirE. Ray Lankester to his Diversions of a Naturalista collection of papers on a vast variety of subjectswhich had been appearing serially under another title.I was very much annoyed, not only because he isa big man and I am a little one and my need wastherefore greater, but also because the title appearedto me better suited to my book than to his. He dealswith the deep problems of biology and is not exactlya naturalist in the old original sense of the word: onewho is mainly concerned with the ' life and conversa-tion of animals ' and whose work is consequentlymore like play than his can be, even when it isScience from an Easy Chair.1266194vi THE BOOK OF A NATURALISTWhat then was I to do, seeing that all possiblechanges had been rung on such general titles asJournals, Letters, Notes, Gleanings, and what not, ofa Naturalist?
There was no second string to mybow since Recreations had already been used by myfriend J. Harting for his book. In sheer despera-tion I took this title, which would fit any work onNatural History ever published. Doubtless it wouldhave been an improvement if I could have put inthe ' Field ' before ' Naturalist ' to show that it wasnot a compilation, but the title could not be madelonger even by a word.Some of the chapters in this volume now appearfor the first time; more of them, however, are takenfrom or based on articles which have appeared invarious periodicals: the Fortnightly Review, NationalReview, Country Life, Nation, the New Statesman,and others. I am obliged to the Editors of theTimes and Chambers' 's Journal for permission to usetwo short copyright articles on the Rat and Squirrelwhich appeared in those journals.W. HUDSON.CONTENTSCHAPTER PAGBI LIFE IN A PINE WOOD.
1II HINTS TO ADDER-SEEKERS. 15III BATS.
33IV BEAUTY OF THE Fox 50V A SENTIMENTALIST ON FOXES. 55VI THE DISCONTENTED SQUIRREL. 63VII MY NEIGHBOUR'S BIRD STORIES. 74VIII THE TOAD AS TRAVELLER. 84IX THE HERON: A FEATHERED NOTABLE. 93X THE HERON AS A TABLE-BIRD. 106XI THE MOLE QUESTION.
113XII CRISTIANO: A HORSE 119XIII MARY'S LITTLE LAMB. 123XIV THE SERPENT'S TONGUE. 134XV THE SERPENT'S STRANGENESS. 153XVI THE BRUISED SERPENT. 172XVII THE SERPENT IN LITERATURE. 186XVIII WASPS.210XIX BEAUTIFUL HAWK-MOTHS. 217XX THE STRENUOUS MOLE.
225XXI A FRIENDLY RAT 232viiviii CONTENTSCHAPTER PAGEXXII THE LITTLE RED DOG. 238XXIII DOGS IN LONDON. 247XXIV THE GREAT DOG-SUPEESTITION. 265XXV MY FEIEND THE PIG.295XXVI THE POTATO AT HOME AND IN ENGLAND. 303XXVII JOHN-GO-TO-BED-AT-NOON,.316XXVIII THE CHEQUERED DAFFODIL AND THEGLORY OF WILD FLOWEES.
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326XXIX CONCEENING LAWNS, WITH INCIDENTALOBSERVATIONS ON EAETHWOEMS. 337INDEX; v.
357THE BOOK OF A NATURALISTLIFE IN A PINE WOODPEOPLE, BIRDS, ANTSSOME years ago a clever gentleman, a landownerno doubt with pine plantations on his property,made the interesting discovery that the ideal placeto live in was a pine wood, owing to the antisepticand medicinal qualities emanating from the trees.You could smell them and began to feel better themoment you entered the wood. Naturally therewas a rush to the pines just as there had been arush to the hill-tops in response to TyndalPs flag-waving and exultant shouts from Hindhead, andas there had been a rush over a century earlier tothe seaside in obedience to Dr. Russell's clarion call.I have no desire myself to live among pines, simplybecause I cannot endure to be shut off from thisgreen earth with sight of flocks and herds. Woodsare sometimes good to live in: I have spent happymonths in a woodman's cottage in a forest; butthe trees were mostly oak and beech and therewere wide green spaces and an abundant wildlife. Pine woods, especially plantations, are12 THE BOOK OF A NATURALISTmonotonous because the trees are nearly all pinesand one tree is like another, and their tall, baretrunks wall you in, and their dark stiff foliageis like a roof above you. I, too, like being in apine wood, just as I like being by the sea, for afew hours or a day, but for a place to live in Ishould prefer a moor, a marsh, a sea-salting, orany other empty, desolate place with a wideprospect.In spite of this feeling I actually did spend agreat part of last summer in such a place.
It isan extensive tract, which when the excitementand rush for the medicinal pines began, was firstseized upon by builders as being near Londonand in a highly aristocratic neighbourhood. Im-mediately, as by a miracle, large ornate housessprang up like painted agarics in the autumnwoods houses suitable for the occupation of im-portant persons. The wood itself was left un-touched; the houses, standing a quarter of a mileor more apart, with their gardens and lawns, werelike green, flowery oases scattered about in itssombre wilderness.
Gardens and lawns are agreat expense, the soil being a hungry sand, andfor all the manuring and watering the flowershave a somewhat sad and sickly look, and thelawns a poor thin turf, half grass and half moss.As a naturalist I was curious to observe theeffect of life in a pine wood on the inhabitants.It struck me that it does not improve their health,or make them happy, and that they suffer most inLIFE IN A PINE WOOD 3summer, especially on warm windless days. Theydo not walk in their woods; they hasten to thegate which lets them out on the road and takesthem to the village or to some point from whichthey can get a sight of earth outside the pines.They are glad to escape from their surroundings,and are never so happy as when going away ona long visit to friends living no matter where, inthe country or abroad, so long as it was not ina pine wood. I should imagine that Marianaherself, supposing that she had survived to thepresent day and had been persuaded to comedown south to try the effect of living in a pinewood, would soon wish to go back to her moatedgrange on a Lincolnshire flat, for all its ancientdust and decay, with no sound to break the sultrynoonday brooding silence save the singing of theblue fly i' the pane and the small shrill shriek ofthe mouse behind the rotting wainscot.So much for the human dwellers among the'crepuscular pines.' I am quoting an expressionof the late lamented Henry James, which he usednot of pine woods generally but of this verywood, well known to him too when he was a guestin the house. But he didn't love it or he wouldhave been a more frequent visitor; as it was, hepreferred to see his dear friends all his friendswere very dear to him when they were awayfrom the twilight shelter of their trees in everbright and beautiful London.I was perhaps more interested in the non-4 THE BOOK OF A NATURALISThuman inhabitants of the wood. The wood thatwas mine to walk in, the part which belonged tothe house and which as a fact I alone used, coveredan area of about sixty acres and was one with theentire wood, only divided from the rest by oakpalings. When one turned from the lawns andgardens into the wood it was like passing fromthe open sunlit air to the twilight and stillatmosphere of a cathedral interior.
It was alsoa strangely silent place; if a thrush or chaffinchwas heard to sing, the sound came from the gardenI had quitted or from some other garden in thewood still farther away. The only small birds inthese pines were those on a brief visit, and littleparties of tits drifted through. Nevertheless, thewood the part I was privileged to walk inhad its own appropriate fauna squirrels, wood-pigeons, a family of jays, another of magpies, apair of yaffles, and one of sparrow-hawks. Gameis not preserved in these woods which are par-celled out to the different houses in lots of a dozento fifty or more acres; consequently severalspecies which are on the gamekeeper's black listare allowed to exist. Most of the birds I havenamed bred during the summer the hawks andyaffles, a dozen or more pairs of wood-pigeons,and a pair each of magpies and jays. The othermembers of the family parties of the last twospecies had no doubt been induced by means ofsharp beaky arguments to go and look for nesting-places elsewhere.LIFE IN A PINE WOOD 5But not one small bird could I find nesting inthe wood. This set me thinking on a questionwhich has vexed my mind for years How dosmall birds safeguard their tender helplessfledgelings from the ants?
This wood swarmedwith ants: their nests, half hidden by the bracken,were everywhere, some of the old mounds beingof huge size, twelve to fourteen feet in circumfer-ence, and some over four feet high.