... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. A Rersospacr. Casting a backward glance over the past year, we raasot avoid oomiug to the conclusion that It has base a vary interesting one for British saturnine§ sad nature-lams. In every deputises! of Geld natural Wary excellent ...

... Nature Notes V*ANY species of birds increase and decrease periodically and it is difficult to explain why. Take for example the whitethroat. This little warbler has been vctv uncommon in recent vears around Banchorr, but this season his vocal and rather ...

... Nature Notes ,4 LMOST whenever you walk in the countryside just now, a trio of oystercatchers fly above you crying all the while in their plaintive voices. This ‘'eternal triangle is characteristic of the oystercatchers. You will often see trio of the ...

... NATURE NOTES. it anyone imagines that the only geld naturalist Who can do good work by observing and recording ks he who has ample leisure and can afford to avail himself of the latest works of reference and most Sp-to-date handbooks, that person should ...

... NATURE NOTES. Autumn has come in with mild warm weather, and the only evidence of the almost wintry conditions of the past fe%s weeks is in the havoc wrought in the gardens. and in the carpet of dead leaves by waysides and in woods. Nature is busily engaged ...

... NATURE NOTES A N &TORS GLIM. Tit WATS or IrVLDIIO.-90111e of the se-eieted waders, that is, those birds that wade for their food as well as swim, move with the most extraordinary rapidity under the water when on the hunt for food in its varied forms, ...

... NATURE NOTES AND QUERIES. Tax Hymn(' FISIBUIT. In spits of Uh^ boisterous weather experiancad during the early days of October, the North Pea Amin -fleet made some big catches within a ftw days of the arrival of the Scotch boats on the Mat Anglian coast ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. AN ISLAND Sexcretite. Ths suggestion made by Sir Harry Johnston that the Island of Achill should be reserved as a kind of sanctuary for such of oar wild animals as are. from one cause or another, becoming rare, and' likely to become ...

... NATURE NOTES NIOHT or two ago. the silence was broken bv the yelping cries of pink-footed geese. The young birds of this species have a cry that reminds one of young dogs. A few minutes later there came the well-known call of the tawny owl EWICK, EWICK ...

... NATURE NOTES t|THE sparrows that dwell beside my cottage have been extremely noisy lately. Their strident chatterlngs and cheepings have been raucous in the extreme, especially when they are settling to roost in the bushes. Yet a day or two ago, all was ...

... NATURE NOTES. For the first time we have a credible record of the occurrence of the noctule bat in Scotland. Mr. I. G. Millais states that during many years spent in working at our northern fauna he never heard of an example of any large species of bat ...

... NATURE NOTES FTER the heavy rain the and the y.% sun came out, warmth of it seemed to be to the bringing insect life the surface. judging b activity of numerous black- birds working hard on the lawn. They worked in twos and threes. but I noticed that ...