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... NATURE NOTES : > . ' . j The Return of ; Brutus . - ; ' ^ A ' FEW months ago [ there foil to bo recorded is these columns the disappearance through death o { the fine old forest-bred lion . Brutus , which for so many years formed one of the chief ...

... NATURE ; NOTES ,, ¦ - ' . . The . Nightingale ; in Scotland . 1 The nightingale ( OouZW luseinia ) was heard singing its tuneful notes in tho Cabrach at the close of last ' month ; It is by no means common to hoar the songs of birds in the said , parish ...

... NATURE NOTES Animals Awakening from Hibernation The awakening of hibernating mammal , • aocompanied by phenomena which are singular , j striking , ' Tho , writer ,-by inserting a thormomot !> f and a stethoscope into the coiled-up under s ...

... NATURE NOTES . , -.. ' . . _ i' - - ; Notes from- Morocco . . I > tmr ! fO tho months of March and April thi neutral tone of the Bled is greatly brightened bj a succession of lovely wild flowers . Tho white narcissus ( iVorctsjttj dubius ) grows in among ...

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

... 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 HOW GROUSE STAY BE REARED . Last year a young keeper friend of mine got a clutch of grouse eggs from a stalker a hundred miles distant . ' .. They were lifted early in the morning , and seven hours intervened before they arrived at ...

... NATURE NOTES , TBE GBOWTH OP SALMON . The marking of young salmon as they pass down our rivers to the sea as smolt has been carried on for several years , not only in Scottish , but also in English waters . A silver wire is passed through ihe base of-the ...

... NATURE NOTES ,. ; ,. . .. - t EARLY NESTS . . Since the 12 th : of the present month . I have noted the following nests within a radius of fifteen miles . around Edinburgh : —Wild ducks , five ; Boug thrushes , four ; blackbirds , ' three ; starlings ...

... NATURE NOTES BECENT IXVESTIGATIOXS ON TROUT . Axglehs and scientists have long disputed ovei the relationships botwoen ' the different forma ol trout found in fresh waters . On the ono hand , it has been , contended that visible differences in appearance ...