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... NATURE NOTES Sea fishing In my article last Saturday I referred to the feast the gulls had after a demolition charge had been fired at Connorâs Point. Bangor, to disintegrate an old wreck. This week it is my intention to describe the legitimate catching ...
... NATURE NOTES. AM UNDESIRABLE ALIEN. A live locust, two inches long, with blown wing covers marked with black, baa been caught in Leeds market. ...
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... NATURE NOTES, COAST WILDFOWL. Wildfowl are reported to be numerous along the Essex, Kentish, Norfolk, and Suffolk coasts, where excellent feeding grounds are obtainable in the estuaries and creeks of the Thames, Blackwater, Deben, Crouch, Tare, Stour ...
... NATURE NOTES. HAYS MACEINI CLAWS. When a bird lifts foot the toes close automatically. This is to prevent the possibility of a bird falling off its perch at night while roosting. The foot has an entirely automatic movement. When a hen walks you may notice ...
... NATURE NOTES. PHILANIHROPIO 0008. Since the late London Jack began the bols4 nous of a canine collector for railway charities be has had many imitators. A correspondent supplies some figures which show what large amounts can be raised in this way. ...
... NATURE NOTES. Smarm; There are several species of singing sects in Japan. The most. prised of these tiny musicians is a black beetle named sumsmushi, a name which means insect bell. The sound that it gives forth is similar to that of a little silver ...
... NATURE NOTES. 4 am fo* aumiEit. Oh! for oae those good, oM-bsUona* rammers (sighs writer is tin “Westminster Gazette”) to put new spirit in us. when flowers and fruit os their proper seasons and not six weeks lata—if at all: when Britain craw her own ...
... NATURE NOTES Oyster Breeding I have received the following letter from a reader in South Down:— Apropos your article on crate, I remember my father telling me that the green crab is the arch enemy oysters. He managed a family oyster bed in Co- Kerry ...
... NATURE NOTES The pollan To most of my readers I suppose the title of this article will be meaningless, but older readers will, I am sure, identify it as the name of the so-called freshwater herring found in Ireland only in Lough Neagh. When I say that ...
... Nature Notes. Cock Hatching Chickens. The teary is going the rounds of a Soots dumpy cock (catering chickens. This ia not so unusual as it at first appears. At the present moment I have an old dumpy oock which regularly fader* and feeds the chickens as ...