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... NATURE NOTE. CAMOU LACE Nature adopts many tactics for defence —in the animal and insect kingdom as well as in the floral kingdom. Her commonest method is camouflage, by which her creatures grow splashes of colour or douses' that makes them almost ...

... NATURE NOTE, THE NURSES There is a remarkable adaptation to Purpose in the insect world. Most people know of the existence of tin. a:dode or cow ant, the worker and ilo drone bee and other weft-defined varieties in the numerous inediet-colonies of Nature ...

... NATURE NOTE. I went to interview , , yesterday. Mr Boo . p President of the % d»* Fishery Trusts When I entered cising his Iron iug-glass. I ,» J V,, and Robson W' happy shout. ' - break Jopson, A V 2.30 I have to l,l . ,/f poor, and , Jfi,f Jones, and ...

... NATURE NOTE. THE KINGFISHER DESPITE early throats of rain, weather—and at times glorious sunshine—favoured the klurworth Pointto-Point at Ingleby Cross on Saturday. The charming scenery, the coloured silk shirts of the riders. and the ladle& many' hued ...

... NATURE NOTE A ripple of correspondence has bccn running through The Times on the subject of the cry of the badger. Personally, I should not recognise the cry of this amiable beast if I heard it, but a surprising number of ocuple agree that it is exactly ...

... Nature Note Yr TREES IN To-day, I was shelter as I crossed j to make the time usef fit to compare the trees The bark of the sweet regularly fissured, hut / have a slightly obli ( l ue in ascending the trunk. is that the whole bark spirally twisted. Though ...

... NATURE NOTE. Jtoe met met? portion OUrtMr Goig* (writes Mr. 8«m Banka, of Bortemoakh) looked *irio«tto wok-Mid with light DOT. oriog ot WW. PioTofaoo of tho m load Mtbejr roll and tumble down thrtr mkr «pre»ding moon above, which m being fed bj the min ...

... NATURE NOTE. Mir. S. Banks, Portsmouth, writes: There’s been many a drenching pplash, W the onk before the ash, And the effect is seen the faded beauty of the hawthorns that dotted our meadows and tl»e dopes of our valley but a short time ago, the blossom ...

... NATURE NOTE Mr. Sam Banks, Portsmouth, near Totlmordttn. prefaces his Nature Note will* “Beit wishes to all for Merry Christma.s and a Happy New Year.” and a reminder that the hird« -still require special attention yet.” The other morning was out on the ...

... NATURE NOTE ripple of correspondence has been running through The Times on the subject of the cry . of the badger. Personally, I should not recognise the cry of this amiable beast if I heard it, but a surprising number of people agree that it is exactly ...

... NATURE NOTE By “Millway.” It Is said that the birds which are energetic in dust-bathmg seldom bathe in water, and it has been supposed that the reason why eating a skylark makes a cat, sick is that the bird never bathes in i water. But I have known poaching ...