... NATURE NOTES. This week I have to record the departure rem Penrith of the swifts, or derdins, herb hare fur the past three months been tar wrleome guests. There are few aigrants that do more. good in the wort I. malt. I.a noise about it, than live le‘ilins ...

... Nature Notes. . touch of wrote that thi, ay. k to ',full the %alit. One after another. are WI. and. whether al. orater it or not. the beautiful ',v. a role the .. Silt 1e.,. our 'Jo u,. on or about the 20th Await. but I hail fain hoped that the iiitta ...

... NATURE: NOTES. This week an observer, Mr. Hodgson Harrison. writing to ate from the Barnard Castle district, guys: As I always read your notes with pleasure in the Herald every week, I thought it would be of interest to you to knon that as I was out ...

... NATURE NOTES THE ABBOTBSURY SWANS. There are more than a thousand swans at Abbotabury, living • perfectly natural life, and none of them pinioned. The result is (says the County Gentleman ) that the visitor sees, what it is not possible to see on the ...

... NATURE NOTES. If there be any truth in the old proverb Many haws, many snows, sic are assuredly in for an old-fashioned winter. Thrushes and blackbirds are having a glorious tines among the hedgerows iust now, and by and by the squirrels from the n ...

... NATURE NOTES. NILES OF STARFIBH. What is locally known as a beach kermess, has just taken place on the Belgian coast between Ostend and Illankenberghe. it takes the form of a vast deposit of starfish, thrown up by the sea in such numbers that they cover ...

... NATURE NOTES. A REMARKABLE CATCH. It is the custom of fishermen ea sane part our coasts to lay long lines of baited hooks along the water's edge at low tide for the purpose of catching the fish that come inshore to feed with the flood. A couple of years ...

... NATURE NOTES. lILBERRIEB. A marked feature of the trade of the weak is the fruit markets of the Midlands hes been the bilberry boom. As there is asbortage in the Baglush black currant crop the retail fruiterers bup up the cheap foreign bilberries reedily ...

... Nature Notes. On Saturday I lied god fortune to come arms • red-bucked alinke, or butcher bird. This migrant ass sitting alone on a therm hedge, and seemed to me to be watching something the ground beneath. I got very near before it lA* tar and hew further ...

... NATURE NOTES. I have this week been informed be Mr. Bond, New Rent, Hatton-in.the-Yorest, that a very good specimen of the common fond leas killed by • mowing nischine. It rather curious that this aolitary bind should have been in the hayfield, but, ...

... 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. 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 ...