... NATURE NOtES , - A Banquet : in the Snow . ' GKATiTDDE is always a comely thing , and the bird , that ' considerate 'mortals have remembered t ...

... NATURE NOTES Performing Kangaroos at the 20 A boxing ' - ' * kangeroo was once-r-and maj , sl be , for ought ono knows to tho contrary—* s * attraction of the circus and . travelling mcnajt . It was amusing enough to see tho beast ,. with d on ...

... NATURE NOTES Cranes at the Zoo . TlTB arrival recently of a pair of Stanley cranca brillgs'tho number of different species of crane at present on exhibition in the Zoological . Park up to five . Tho Stanley crane- ^ a South African species—is rather ...

... NATURE NOTES Birds of the Open Country in Franca Mosr of the trains in France are . doiightfulh slow-a fact ostromely annoying to the otdiuan traveller , but unusually charming to thB bird lover Our train simply sauntorod through the county Here a wide ...

... NATURE NOTES THE FULMAE PETBEL AND- ITS BREEDING HAUNTS . Natubausts have been much puzzled by the un . accountable expansion o £ the breeding area of that interesting oceanic . bird , tho fulmar petrol [ Fvlmarus Glacialis . ) For many years it * sole ...

... NATURE- NOTES STOAT ' S ENCOUNTES WITH A HEDGEHOG . . For the past two seasons a pair of stoats havo bred and reared their young in the sheltered branches of a hi g h tree -not far from' my house . Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the ...

... NATURE ^ . NOTES . xois tuimx w a r&i' iua . Majtx years ago , while trapping rabbits in a spruce-covered , ...

... NATURE NOTES TUB WOUJJ WAaf . i Considerable notice has been taken recently of the wood wasp ( Sirez gigas ) , all writers appearing to agree that it is a rare insect in . this country . I quite , agree that owing to its arboreal habitat it is a little-known ...

... NATURE NOTES A ROBIN ' S KEBTING-rLACE . ' It may interest your readers to ; know that at » villa with sunk area in Grange Loan , a robin im nested . This may not ssern vory-i ...

... NATURE NOTES WILDFOWL . IN THE FIRTH OP FORTH . ^ Considerable numbers of blaolc-hoaded gulls a « again in evidence along the shore line , along wja a ! number of young birds of the year compicuoia by tho brownish colourings of their plumage and without ...

... NATURE NOTES WILD-FOWLING IN THE CBOMARTY FTBTH . It was tho grey dawn of a winter morning , and the wavelets on the beach iwished among a slush of ice as we boarded a white , ghost-like punt , and rowed off into tho gloom . All was silent and still ...

... NATURE NOTES - rTHE GtADNEBSrOF TUB BIRD 3 . The ' other morning . I was attracted out of dooti by an excited cawing of the rooks . They w ere . assembled on the neighbouring elms , from -which fhoj ; were ' tiiking excursions high into tho m . rounding ...