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... NATURE NOTES A Stowaway from Australia . The writer , has frequently noted in this column the arrival in this country of animals which have been unwittingly , imported along with various kinds of merchandise ; spiders and insects have become almost a ...

... NATURE NOTES From the Borders . A . frost of 21 degrees Fahrenheit occurring a late as the third day of March is fortunately rarenor had any of the limmediately preceding da , l recorded more , than' a few- degrees below freezing point , notwithstanding ...

... 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 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 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 ...