... NATURE NOTES . , eausaia A tos . is A HiOHLU » r > cite ' ; I' ; its native ' 'habitat amonff tho mountains the EOI occasionally exhibits a certain dagroo of guile . lessnets . Ita cunning is a quality growing with the exigencies that arise from contact ...

... NATURE NOTES BIBB MIGBAT 10 NB FBOM THE 60 LWAT BnOBE . THOSE who live , on the seashore and study it /; bird-lifo have ninny intorostiiis facts to record , and many puzzles to work out in connection with tho movemonte and habits ' of birds at different ...

... NATURE NOTES BHOM . 8 W BaaiMPB . THAI many of the lower forma of lifo are enormously prolific is well known to all who take an interest in natural history , but' occasionally the student cornea aorosa living creatures in such vast numbers that the mind ...

... NATURE NOTES . THE FLTOACE O ? BIBDB IN BSOW . IT has . often . struck ' , me that tho colouring of a bird ' s plumage is brighter in -time of snow than in open . weathor . This may be due to the contrast of the bright colouring against the dazzling white ...

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... NATURE NOTE'S THE TEX > n . T-. wazB . rs Mro-. o'nmLS . ' - WHILE tho spotted fly-catcher is comparatively common as a breeding species , tho occurrence of the pied flv-catcber in Scotland is rare , and confined to a few localities . It may be that the ...

... NATURE . NOTES • - J ^ TGSHES-DTOrBAE ; OAS 5 ISH , SOME days ago a pairagriph appeared in Tilt Scotsman describing recant additions to tha Royal Scottish . Museum , a . nd in . particular mentioning that the specimen of the-rare fish known as tho oar ...

... NATURE NOTES • -A MAY siOBtnare ' s oBSEimnoKs . My point of observation at the Butt of Lewea overlooks a rugged piece o £ sea coast , cave mdent&di , tempest riven and . overhanging , with . adjacent pinnacled stacks and rooky islets ; landward a . ...

... NATURE NOTES THE BBBTIKBBCTXOa O ? i 'WB . UiE , OM Sunday , at tho requost of a eenrnruig man , and goaded by tho air of mystery with which he announced that wonders undreamed of by men of ecionco were occasionally brought to light in the trawl-net ...

... NATURE NOTES LAND SrBDS'AS'BwIMMEBS . THE absence of ' webbing does not , per ie , entitle us to conclude that a bird is not able to disport itself in the water . I was . walking along the side of ( i West Highland loohan bno day last August when I ...

... NATURE NOTES S ~ S 3 , —As a reader of your nature column , where normal and abnormal happenings among- nature ' s animal and vegetable kingdom are recorded , it occurred to me to mention one or two items that came under my notice . Last year about ...

... NATURE NOTES A BARE OWL IN FIFE . IT is but seldom lihat the occurrence of any rara bird is recorded in this country until it is in tho hands of tho taxidermist The gun of the going keeper holds more records than the field-glass oi the naturalist . Passing ...