... NATURE NOTES. Iln A : 4,1 I • 1,41 r Maw lon by Mr. T. I , nrith Today (Apra I arr of eth.b••• a • . In for en too lend. nun+ thew bus 0..0r•10arne u flimsy tiro nom nn tot Ivo nu. eol also who , . the and a, b. lb 7 7 . and Mr. R. Hetharingt ...

... NATURE NOTES. A WHITE WATER MEN. A whit* varieties of the water-bra, Wed at Stour, Dorset, lestisesitlt, hue bow reoeired at the Natural History Museu South Heosingtoa. MARVELLOUS CHRYSANTHEMUM. A chrysanthemum exhibited at the World's Fair Bower show ...

... NATURE NOTES. The first occasion on which sandinartins were seen in the Penrith district, so far as I know, was on Tuesday, 4th April. These birds—four in number—were observed on the outskirts of the town by Mr. Joseph Irving, gardener, who assures me ...

... NATURE NOTES. BEARS THAT MAKE ROADS. The best road-maker in Alaska, according to an Alaskan guide of many years' experience, is the brown bear. Not only are the banks of the streams trodden into good trails by these great animals, but the swampy places ...

... NATURE NOTES. TO ATTRACT BEES. If you want the beet to visit your geneu—andl if you know anything of plant life, you will be 'aware that they are a aecresity—invite them by having plants which bear blue blossoms. According to Lord Avebury, they manifest ...

... Nature Notes. The large ntimher of redshanks that have horn in the Peatuith dutriat donna the Wt. fon 'reeks hr attrarteri . And del of attention from wialerits of toed too. It is only during the last few years that these birds have begun to neat in our ...

... NATURE NOTES. WHIN TRi L071817.R MOULTS. Below is a sketch of a lobster's claw. which explains how the lobster, wishing to shed its shell, withdraws the fleshy part of the big claw through the narrow opening at the base of the limb. In this sketch the ...

... NATURE NOTES. It is not often it falls to my lot to record the birth of twins, and more particularly twin chickens, which is a unique circumstance in my eKperienc+•. Mr. Isaac Stephenson, Newbiggin (nacre). tells nie he procured n setting of eggs from ...

... NATURE NOTES, Most of my readers will have beard or read soak,. of the tales that have tome from the (mat about the rat plague. I have waited very patiently to hear the facts from someone who had actually seen these great big rats. The opportunity ran* ...

... NATURE NOTES. ENGLISH CRAYFISH. Schemes for the restoration of nrayilsh to tribe. tariee of tho Thames, from whir* they have totally disappeared, owing to the crayfish disease, are,. the county Gentlemen understands,entertained by some of the proprietors ...

... NATURE NOTES. AM INSECT PLAGUE. As a result of the excessive wet weather of last year we are destined to suffer a plague of gnats. Midges and such-like insects spend the earlier stages of their lives in the water; and, as a general rule, they do not multiply ...

... Nature Notes Although we Ore little more than l'a!f-way through the winter, ',steely • day passes ii 'thine beano ' . tidings of the I'olllllg spring. Hold soot reign almost, in full tong, and for such a seedo bind his voiee is wieekirfully loud and clear ...