... NATURE NOTES. Autumn has come in with mild warm weather, and the only evidence of the almost wintry conditions of the past fe%s weeks is in the havoc wrought in the gardens. and in the carpet of dead leaves by waysides and in woods. Nature is busily engaged ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. , BETTER TIIIII3 FOR THE BIRDS. So often have we had cause to lament the disappearance of some bird or another from places or districts where it had formerly been not uncommon that many of us have almost come to look upon such things ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. A Rersospacr. Casting a backward glance over the past year, we raasot avoid oomiug to the conclusion that It has base a vary interesting one for British saturnine§ sad nature-lams. In every deputises! of Geld natural Wary excellent ...

... NATURE NOTES. it anyone imagines that the only geld naturalist Who can do good work by observing and recording ks he who has ample leisure and can afford to avail himself of the latest works of reference and most Sp-to-date handbooks, that person should ...

... NATURE NOTES A N &TORS GLIM. Tit WATS or IrVLDIIO.-90111e of the se-eieted waders, that is, those birds that wade for their food as well as swim, move with the most extraordinary rapidity under the water when on the hunt for food in its varied forms, ...

... NATURE NOTES. Winter is undoubtedly still with us, but with the lengthening days we see many signs of the caning springtime. Rooks are regular visitors at their old rookeries-and, in their less amatory intervals, clamorously assert their right to 01l ...

... NATURE NOTES AND QUERIES. Tax Hymn(' FISIBUIT. In spits of Uh^ boisterous weather experiancad during the early days of October, the North Pea Amin -fleet made some big catches within a ftw days of the arrival of the Scotch boats on the Mat Anglian coast ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. AN ISLAND Sexcretite. Ths suggestion made by Sir Harry Johnston that the Island of Achill should be reserved as a kind of sanctuary for such of oar wild animals as are. from one cause or another, becoming rare, and' likely to become ...

... NATURE NOTES AND. QUERIES. Ea A few ameba ago, in reply to a inquiry, reference awn made In thin column to the nee in this country of the edible frog. Thr weirs wan int discovered in England MS, when It was found to be fairly •bend/Nt in rim'mire Een ...

... NATURE NOTES. For the first time we have a credible record of the occurrence of the noctule bat in Scotland. Mr. I. G. Millais states that during many years spent in working at our northern fauna he never heard of an example of any large species of bat ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. 1 Bums or a RaaWAY Jammu. The interior of a railway carriage dasking througn the country at a pace of many miles an hour is hardly an ideal place from which to observe bird life, yet if the passenger make the most of his chances ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. airman. berring the winter a good many bitterns bliss I Visited En„eiand, and It Is gratifying to know that ' in some instances the sportsmen who have seen them have refrained from shooting them. The bittern is one of those birds ...