... THE OHCOHIHG OF THE TIGER Col. describes in *'Nature Note* hovt tiger approaches in the forest : At about sunset various denisens the forest, hitherto unseen, emerge from their shelters, very warily indeed, sometimes listening attentively, sometimes ...

... A PLUCKY BLACKBIRD. Writing to Nature Note*, Y. A. Pitts relates that one morning in the spring there was great disturbance among the birds in the garden. ** The window looks out on to a thick ivy hedge that forms a very popular nesting-place for the ...

... SPRING NATURE STUDIES By SCHOLAR IN EXILE' , (Concluding Instalment) Another Nature note recently referred to tho presence of one of the very earliest flowers of the year, familiarly known as the Barren Strawberry, or the Poteutilla Fragariastrum, and ...

... NATURE NOTES. A TRIUNE CROP. A remarkable sight to seen the garden of Mr. Dumbrill, London road. Rurge«s Hill. A pear tree bloomed in the early spring, the blooms set, and there wss crop of pears. bloomed sgain, and there was second crop of fruit. Now ...

... NATURE NOTES. • * HARE WITH HORHB. Han with aAm Mir of boroa bat boon tbel Dear Hadeo-Baden. aportsman mistook for goat UVING WITHOUT BRAINS. The way the tortoise will cliog to life one the moat remarkable things in Nature. Om has been known to lire three ...

... NATURE NOTES. ALOE IH BLOOM. An alo*, in height, in in the front garden of liighwood I loose, Noilh Finchley. There twenty-sir. bloom* altogether, and these are eTi»eried ►horlly P.ower. said that the aloe does not bloom gardens till it years old. After ...

... NATURE NOTES Birds ag pie, house.spai row , robin and thrush, building and laying. Insects.—Gnats and broods of other insects out on fine days. Frogs spawning. Tadpoles in class observation Jars. Plant life.—Flowers of daffodil, colefoot, goose. berry ...

... The addition of valves has made the chromatic scale possible to an instrument which at first was capable only f the natural notes of its tube. If the spirals of a French horn were straightened out the instrument would be 17ft. long. That is why they ...

... issetings, visits to memassa, and lastares—with the object of crest. leg %Mesa is Nature atsdy. The monthly magroime, Nature Notes which is forwarded free Se all sessabers. contains artistes of great interest to aL Modesto of Natural History. All wbo ...

... danced from hair-past two until half-past seven without atop, when the committee decided that the award should ha shared. NATURE NOTES. * ...

... Astwood Beak, Worcestershire, is is the habit of providing gems curious homes for the birds in his neighbourhood. Be tells in Nature Notes that last spring be accommodated three pain of robins with ordinary empty tomato tins to build in, which he placed in various ...

... under the name of wave* are those due to tidal attraction and to earthquake disturbance, most of the waves we see i•ay* “Nature Notes**) are due the immediate or more remote acliaii wind. A gentle breeie ripples the any water, whilst higher wave* are mainly ...