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... OW entio. Bearded Tit in Norfolk. A pleasant piece of natural history gossip appears in Nature Notes from Norfolk. A certain landowner, who happens to be very wealthy and at tbesame time an enthusiastic ornithologist, last year had no fewer than seven ...
... A CASE OF PEVERSION. A writer in Nature Notes says he was greatly surprised the other day to learn, on the authority of a keeper, that most of the ducks in Kensington Gardens make their nests in the trees. Wherever there is a dwarfed tree, or where ...
... taint about the mare for we.-ka after it is set; sad the keepers usually detect the wires long before the odour has gone.— Nature Notes. ...
... birds hate sometimes to fall back on curious material for the building. of their nests. Mr. A. Holt Macpherson tells in Nature Notes of some spotted fly-catchers which nested in Hydepark and Kensington-gardens last summer. One nest which he watched he ...
... N ELFPHANT'S B RIGHT IDFA A correspondent writes to Nature Notes One day when my brotber and [ were at the 7 Gardena, we went to feed with a bag of We were ythe way they stretched out thelr trunks through the bars of the cage to tako the food, then curled ...
... Tllll FLYING lIQVIIIIIIIL. The Children's Column of the Selboree Sceiety's Magazate, Nature Notes, contains a few remarks upon the flying squirrel. There is at the present moment one of these animals at the Zoological Gas dens in London. It can hardly ...
... AN ELEPHANT'S BRIGHT IDEA. A correspondent writes to Nature Notes: —One day, when my brother and I were at the I Zoological Garden+, we went to feed the elephants with a bag of biscuits. We were amused by the way they stretched out their trunks through ...
... A TALENTED ROBIN. Mr. Peter Lewis, of Hereford, sends Nature Notes, a marvellous, yet apparenty well authenticated anecdote of a robin who formed a decided attachment to two maiden ladies, sisters of Squire Jones, of Pyle. Wheresoever these ladies walked ...
... the taint the snare for weeks after r is set, and the keepers usually detect the wires leaf before the odour hes gune.— Nature Notes. ...
... .A. To/king Cozary. A lady correspondent of Nature Notes, while staying recently in the little village of Churchill, Somerset, heard a tslkity canary. The bird belongs to a Mrs. Wickland, wife of a gardener living in Churchill. Joey came into her ...
... Story. I have- witnessed some other curious and inter- esting sights connected with my troutery, says a writer in Nature Notes. I have been present at, and seen fought out, pitched battles between rival fish. They generally last half an hour or ...
... BLACKBIRD'S INSANE DELUSION. J. K. S. writes from Abbotsfield to Nature Notes as follows :—At spring-time, when birds of the male sex are often seized with an irresistible desire to display their gallantry by picking a quarrel with their neighbours ...