... ABNORMAL BIRDS' NESTS. Some particulars are given in Nature Notes for April of the interesting collection of abnormal birds' meta exhibited at a recent meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club. Mr E Bidwell, with whom the ides originated, sent the ...

... Gotts. It is a frequent enough eight, writes Mr. H. Stuart Dore, F.Z.S., in Nature Notes, to behold the graceful terns and heavy gannets diving in the waters of Sass's Straits for their tinny prey; but not so often does one catch sight of the bold Pacific ...

... THE ORIGIN OF THE LEMON. A pretty ►egend of the origin of the lemon is told by the author of Riviera Nature Notes : When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, they were determined to tak.. with them the feeds of certain fruit trees. For the ...

... FLYING SPIDERS. Mr. E. T. Daubeny writes to Nature Notes estimating the migrating light of the Virginian plover at the rate of from 800 to 7GO miles an hour. and adds: H. Giitke, who is my authority. arrives at it in this way. He ascertains that the bird ...

... pretty art has not become wholly obsolete. f•. was but yesterday that the Manx poet. Browne, left a fascinating legat7 of nature notes in 0: form of letters; and it is an open secret that Mr Louis Parker, master of pageants. excels in this branch of literary ...

... ANTS AND ULTRA-VIOLET RAYS. In Nature Notes Mr. 0. C. Silverlock records the results of experiments conducted by himself during two years with the view of testing the sensibility of ants to changes of temperature and to the ultra-violet rays of the spectrum ...

... NATURE NOTES. A. L. M.—Tho way to find out if the bee is mad or not to offer it a drink. If it refuses it is mad and had better be killed. If it tales it you ha.l better insure your life at once. B. K.—lf as you say the bird has not only built but hatched ...

... or commencing in the Only Way line of business. Mexican and Portuguese papers,. please copy. ;From London Opinion.) Nature Note for April 1M: jays are eaught in great numbers on this date. An interesting feature of a recently - published official return ...

... has been considerably restricted. The motor 'bus service has been well patronised. Eaitur NZATS.— W. A. N. writes to Nature Notes in the Sootsinian:—The mild weather of the last week or two appears to have hail a marked effect on our wild birds in ...

... prose better material for the novel as written today? Probably we have the explanation of the change in the deeper, more natural note which now belongs to fiction, and which permits heroine to fie forty, so long as she is not fat. A heroine must never be ...

... goods trains, each with a carrying capacity of 500 tons to effect the purpose. 'ln a recent issue of The Scotsman. a Nature Note referred to the instinct which some plants have of searching for water. At the rainfall station at Peni(nk the apparatus ...