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... NATURE NOTE • THE SMALLEST BBITISH BEE . -The sight of my . roso-bush leaves the other d tinged b y tho leaf-cutting bee , a great hairy tMl that sometimes blunders into tho houso , rcmjjj n ™ by some subtlo allusion of contrast that Ik tiniest of all ...

... NATURE NOTE BIllU LIFE OS TJiE WESTERN FRONT , Some birds seem little perturbed by tho noiso and commotiorrof war . Hc-ro in the vicinity of Arras , in a pond leading into the courtyard o ! an old block of buildings now used as a bath-house for the troops ...

... NATURE NOTE BATS IN SEABCH OF HONEY . • Not so long ago tl ^ browrt rat was by no means commpn in Lower Glenbuchat , in the wilder portion of • Abordcenshire , but in recent years considerable numbers have appeared in the district aud havo infested the ...

... NATURE NOTE . 1 wo DoamuviTun jmuabd . While spending my holidays last August in K Lanarkshire village near the Clyde , I one day observed a . wild duck ( femalo mallard ) lying amon g somo hens belonging to a small farmor . On making inquiries I was ...

... NATURE NOTE ' . ¦ fiAlUBE UN THE WbHJLiCi 1 UUM , The mild' weather of tho early spring has given place to cold , bleak days , and the birds aro feeling it acutely . Their singing is very intermittent , and at times almost despondent . Tho blackbird ...

... NATURE NOTE SEED PEKSIONEBS . We get a great deal of pleasure every winter from feeding tho birds . Food tables are affixed for the purpose to the . window sills , and one ot two of our pensioners often alight on them before tho hand that tends them has ...

... NATURE NOTE . S . ^ ACBIiroiBit IK • B . CSDS . A WEKS . ago I caw a . jackdaw , one erf ^ i wmgs was • dietmgaiAi ^ cl by eavaral white ty ^ ' 'While the bird • waa flying this was particii ] ^ noticeable , bat oven when it rested , and its ^ were • ...

... A NATURE NOTE Edinburgh , June 23 , 1919 . Sih ,- —While walking leisurely in the southern outskirts ol the eily onb glorious morning lately , I could not but remark with admiration the prevailing wealth of beauty of Nature . This was-manifest wherever ...

... NATURE ;; . NOTE S BRITISH WATERFOWL AT THE ZOO . The collection of British waterfowl in the Zoological Park at 1 Corstorphine has received several . important additions during the past yen , and is now sufficiently numerous and representative to be worthy ...

... NATURE -NOTE . S THE FAIEKNAL iriSTIHCT ni BIBBS . ' 1 MAI'EBNAL instinct ^ m -inEl . ? ; animals has '•' . •' 'been so loudly lauded thai qniie as wonderful a one , tha paternal instinct in birds , has beon rather overlooked , Two wwks ago ft ^ y » jE ...

... NATURE NOTE Embattled oystercatchers 1 had always thought that oystercatchers were friendly birds—noisy but not much given to strife, but an incident witnessed recently caused me to change my mind. 1 was traversing the hilly parish of Towie, in Aberdeenshire ...