... 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 THE TWO PUZZLES OF BIRD MIGKATIOS . In connection with the phenomenon of the migration of birds , the two great puzzles are—Why does it exis £ ? and How is it performed ? The first question is ' not'answered by saying it is a habit into ...

... NATURE NOTES roTMBM . HERALDS OE THE MOBS . Man , in his anthropomorphic way , has emphasised the significance to the animals of the passing of day and night . But is tho change of any real import ? Does it , in fact , affect the animals themselves ? ...

... NATURE NOTES HYBRID WATERFOWL'AT THE ZOO . Teeee are now a number of hybrid waterfowl the Scottish Zoological Park , several of which ha / been bred there . , The most interesting , perha ^ . are two birds whoso father is an Australian \ , \ ii swan ...

... NATURE NOTES . • the DrorAEv ; of seals . Some days ago we witnessed from the Bass Roei an unusual departure in the dietary , of seals , a cuttlefish or 6 quid-forming the meal . Frequentl y we have seen these , amphibians making a meal of full-grown ...

... NATURE NOTES y ; ; : ' . Animals in Captmty . . It is not often advisable to keep wild animals oi different genus in the same quarters- A peregrins , for example , nroet hare an aviary to himself , for in the'Unnatural-conditions of confinement a bird ...

... NATURE NOTES . . MINING BEES . ' My first brood of mining bees had finished thoi . labours by June 6 , when only one last sand cm . showed signs of activity . In a few days this jj ^ closed , and for tha anace of about a month A was quiet in the colony ...

... 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 v - ^ A ^ S'l UA-1 5 1 U 1 LL 1 . . 1 , ¦• ' ¦ ' - ¦ ' - - - i . ^ : . ¦ - ¦ ' - - - : l ' . i j . ArFKvrdays ago , 1 was sitting motionless in a 1 spruce planting on the Lcnnoxlove Estate , Easfc'Lo . thian , ' watching for somo roe-deer ...

... NATURE NOTES Adjutant Storks at the Zoo . The writer remembers , an unhappy length of time ago when his years were but few , seeing , some book or other a picture of tho body 0 [ native floating down a river—doubtless the Ganrrp -and having perched ...

... 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 ...