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... 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 ...
... 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. BEARS THAT MAKE ROADS. The best road-maker in Alaska, according to an Alaskan guide of many years' experience, is the brown bear. Not only are the banks of the streams trodden into good trails by these great animals, but the swampy places ...
... NATURE NOTES. TO ATTRACT BEES. If you want the beet to visit your geneu—andl if you know anything of plant life, you will be 'aware that they are a aecresity—invite them by having plants which bear blue blossoms. According to Lord Avebury, they manifest ...
... Nature Notes. In answer to many inquiries about the white lapwing whiqh was bred in the Penrith district last summer, I may state that it left its haunt, with the teat of • flock at the approach of the 'Miry weather in November. It is, however, expected ...
... 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. 71waerompanying photograph shows •• young schoolboy. named J. Watson. son of Mr. Adam WaMon. signalmen. Monroe , . Mahon. end his tame pigeon. For • long time thispigerm hes follooncl the hoy to gild from School, until it ho. attrarud the ...
... NATURE NOTES. Iln A : 4,1 I • 1,41 r Maw lon by Mr. T. I , nrith Today (Apra I arr of eth.b••• a • . In for en too lend. nun+ thew bus 0..0r•10arne u flimsy tiro nom nn tot Ivo nu. eol also who , . the and a, b. lb 7 7 . and Mr. R. Hetharingt ...
... NATURE NOTES. WHIN TRi L071817.R MOULTS. Below is a sketch of a lobster's claw. which explains how the lobster, wishing to shed its shell, withdraws the fleshy part of the big claw through the narrow opening at the base of the limb. In this sketch the ...
... NATURE NOTES. HOOKING AN The Kirkcudbrightshire Adevruser reports that while angling the ather . day on the Fleet, at Gatehouse, lfr, R.,H. itacactom, Liverpool, bad a singular experience, in' which' he bttke Ms rod and lost his strange fish. Gliding ...
... 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, ...