... NATURE NOTES. The Loss of a Bird Friend. live in country cottage, and we've hid a blackbird that has lived and winter with us since c&ine here, and that's about five years ago He was quite tame, and fed with the fowls on the cruinibs laid fcr him the ...

... NATURE NOTES. Eagle Attacks White Tebrier. On one occasion, -when out on the hiil in deer forest R.os3-shire with gamekeeper friend (we were in quest of foxes'/ dens), witnessed what seemed to ine ail amazing instance of the unusual temerity of the golden ...

... NATURE NOTES. OUATHKS SAND PIT. Most visitors to sand pits to see what can bo learned geologically. They search for sea sheds and 1 rounded pebble* and stratification, and other marine evidences, they i»tudy the outline of the surface, and l put dtown ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE FOREST MYSTERIOUS. The forest lay west the village, and made green and soft curtain, behind the sun retired ■when he went to rest. [No matter whether it was the shortest day winter the longest of summer, it was one and the same—the great ...

... NATURE NOTES. 1 A WAYSIDE BOTANIST. Maeterlinck declares that the bees of the observation hive in his study in Paris are able, even in the stony heart of that great city, to find the wherewithal to nourish themselves and to prosper. It is so with the ...

... NATURE NOTES. MARCH OF STORM. When that galling inversion of fine February followed by a stormy March occurs, all the world's gear is put out of order. The sap that had begun to ascend in the trees is frozen in the cells; the tender shoots receive a baleful ...

... NATURE NOTES. HARVEST DAYS. When Nature begins drees herself in. autumn robes, and yellow grain makes with green field her richest colour-picture, the farmer girds up his loins to enter the work the year, and to secure the fruits that have been maturing ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE LAPWING. OEISTATtTS.) The singling of the birds since long before Dan cola the fowlen maken melodic has. been a specific priug. Scouana bird-ory is «o char*cierisuc sweetest of times as the piping tutted along the have iU st returned ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE INDIAN SUMMER- spring comes in by fits and winter approaches halting. that this is so. If winter came upoi a tropical night there would ensue tude of ills. We should lieS t,ioo each harvest-end. It might £ a the human race cou ...

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... NATURE NOTES. THE CUCKOO. (CUCULUS Who does not atop to listen to the , of the cuckoo—young folks arrested novelty, and older ones trains two*' reflections? How much there is in' fold note cannot be told even 'by a 6peC1 ' lees than hour, and by that ...

... NATURE NOTES. the blooming heather. our early forefathers neglected °harms of the heather plants and have left no folk-lore concerning them, the defect has been more than supplied by tiie place given them in modern literature and the sentiment and decorations ...