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... NATURE NOTES • -A MAY siOBtnare ' s oBSEimnoKs . My point of observation at the Butt of Lewea overlooks a rugged piece o £ sea coast , cave mdent&di , tempest riven and . overhanging , with . adjacent pinnacled stacks and rooky islets ; landward a . ...
... NATURE NOTES THE BBBTIKBBCTXOa O ? i 'WB . UiE , OM Sunday , at tho requost of a eenrnruig man , and goaded by tho air of mystery with which he announced that wonders undreamed of by men of ecionco were occasionally brought to light in the trawl-net ...
... NATURE NOTES LAND SrBDS'AS'BwIMMEBS . THE absence of ' webbing does not , per ie , entitle us to conclude that a bird is not able to disport itself in the water . I was . walking along the side of ( i West Highland loohan bno day last August when I ...
... NATURE NOTES . RAPIP SB 6 X-BTJIEDISG . Lira on Saturday oreningr , 22 d March , I noticed in a small holly bush in a Duddingston garden , a ivhisp of straws and root fibres , ¦ which looked as if a puff of wind had caught -them up and blown them against ...
... NATURE -NOTES AN OWL , A BLACKBIRD , AND A HEBON . Tee sight of a moping owl in Auld Reckioij ono of sufficiently rare ocenrronco to justify a pas ,, ing reference to it . When crossing Marchhall Ecvk ) last night tho present writer saw one on tho tonmost ...
... NATURE NOTES WBECKED NESTS . The strong- winds .. prevailing ' n ' he months of March aid April ; have proved disastrous to many' ot the early nesting birds . I live , in tho county of Kincardine ^ - -where almost daily some evidence of : wreckage confronts ...
... NATURE NOTES THE COBNCBAKE . Owrjre io ; the lateness of the spring corncrakes hayo come more often under visual ouservatiom this year than , is usually the case . A hundred people are familiar with its harsh call for every one ¦ w ho bas seen the bird ...
... NATURE NOTES IHE PERILS'OP ANTARCTIC BIRD COLLECTING . Two ecctioas of the report on the Scientific Results of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition , under Dr W . S . Bruce , reprinted from the Fourth Volurrre ,- are . of special interest to the ...
... NATURE NOTES EABLY ABEIVAI , OF THE SWALLOW . • The normal data of tho arrival of the swallow at Dalmeny Gardens may bo pyt down as from the 18 th to tho 20 tti April , and ifc oaino somowhat ae . a surpriso to hear thai ; this season they had ...
... NATURE NOTES THE MOULTING OP THE CHEAT NOHTHEBN DIVER . Very little is known concerning the habits of this bird , and practically nothing concerning its moult As far as my own observations go , both tho autumn and spring change ' s- of plumage take ...
... NATURE NOTES FLAOUE OF SCENTLESS MAYWEED .. I notice that in North Wales and in the Mid . land Counties of England thero is this year a plague of poppies , and somo fields have tho scarlet surface so continuous that one would hardl y s \ ispect tho presence ...
... NATURE NOTES DISCOVERY OB hOST SEA AMMAM . Within the last few days I have received from a friend in California an' account of the discovery of a herd of soa- « lephant 5 by a scientific party sent out from tho American ' Museum of Natural History ...