... NATURE NOTES. Musette Mittioes. The migration of the butterflies weaderftl sight which may be seen every Central America. The insects, toward. June, cross the Isthmus of Panama, sod ' a week or more, in untold millions, they to sea. They snake a dazzling ...

... NATURE NOTES. 0111. Eyes of thee are composed Wan Immenra number of facets, probably four thousand at least to each organ,' says an authority. More wonderful still, each facet is really a minute eye in itself, and answers to one of our eyes. 1 hey give ...

... NATURE NOTE. Tam This somewhat odd-looking bird is pimps better known as the foolish guillemot, and is' also, in some places, called the willock, or tinkers/ere. It is one of the commonest of the spades, and is mot with in the tideway of the open sea ...

... NATURE NOTES. STRICT Most insects are strict vegetarians. All the butterfly and moth tribe, of course, adhere to plant food, and so do most of the beetles and nearly all the flies. About seven-eighths of the whole animal kingdom are vegetable feeders ...

... NATURE NOTES. BIRDS MACHINI CLAWS. When a bird lifts its foot the toes close automatically. This is to prevent the possibility of in bird falling offs perch at night while roosting. The foot ha s an entirely automatic moiewent. When a hen walks you may ...

... NATURE NOTES. LANDMARKS UNNECESSARY. The flight of the wild goose is a marvellous thing, declares a naturalist. At certain periods these birds gather together in large flocks, feeding on the uplands and waiting for a stiff, favourable wind. Then up they ...

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... NATURE NOTES. Tam BARN OWL. A prominent position in popular superstition has been held by this bird from time immunerial ; for the white, or, as it is more generally termed, the barn, owl, is possessed of a pent. liar screech, which, axing uttered ...

... NATURE NOTES. Ftvi Nona. In their feelers ants have live noses, each of which has its own duties to perform. One nese tells the ant whether it is in its own nest or that of an enemy ; another noise discriminates between odours of ants of the same species ...

... suppose they'll do anyone any harm, said Tillotson, who walked off. He was subbe , queutly caught at his mother's house. NATURE NOTES. Tuns Tan The poet has told that there my pm* in the world to whom • primrose ca • rives brim • primrose, and nothing ...

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... NATURE NOTES. Loxo Lyn AND Tau. Birds wii chief use o during tailed birds on the mini them, they hind them rudder. h long legs have short tails. The the tail being to act as a rudder t, bow do these long-legged, short' manage to steer themselves when ...