... A PONY'S INTELLIGENCE. A correspondent writes from Abbotsbury to Nature Notes: The other day when we were haviir lunch we heard a strange scratching sound, r.nd then as if someone were trying to turn the handle of the door. Our housemaid went and opened ...

... in an aviary in hie garden, and allowed them to remain there until the swim. It appears from this patlessates letter la Nature Notes that his aviary w made of thick wire, End is placed spinet a wall, the. roof espo t being partially covered, and the outer ...

... TEM 1311118.—Among animals of the highest types of organi,a-lion we have long bee. accustomed (writes Mr. W. H. Harris in Nature Notes) to facts which seam distinctly to point to peocessee of reasoning. Elephants, horses and dogs have furnished abundant ...

... OUR YOUNG FOLKS' LETTER. PLYTIIO lIQUTI2III.. The Children's Column • of the flociedy's Megariae, Nature Notes,* contains a few remarks upon the gybe squirrel. There is at the present moment coe ofthess aaimaleat the Zoological Gm dens in London. It ...

... thought earnestly—the 12 or 14 perorations of Mr. Hume to every speech the veteran delivers —all these may be matters of-good natured note, but they have, of course, little to do with oratory. There are some earnest men, chiefly young, who are coraing-up,” and ...