... NATURE NOTES. Among the many signs of the season that are to be seen in the country just now none is more pleasing to lovers of birds than the large flocks of lapwings that are following the meadows and pasture fields in search of grubs. In the early ...

... NATURE NOTES. It is not often it falls to my lot to record the birth of twins, and more particularly twin chickens, which is a unique circumstance in my eKperienc+•. Mr. Isaac Stephenson, Newbiggin (nacre). tells nie he procured n setting of eggs from ...

... NATURE NOTES FOR AUGUST. The Passing of Summer. To birds the sunumr is now over sail the sand martin colonies in river bank ant quarry are deserted and the late owners with their grown-up families dock and Hy to new roosting places. The swifts have gone ...

... NATURE NOTES, Most of my readers will have beard or read soak,. of the tales that have tome from the (mat about the rat plague. I have waited very patiently to hear the facts from someone who had actually seen these great big rats. The opportunity ran* ...

... Nature Notes. The large ntimher of redshanks that have horn in the Peatuith dutriat donna the Wt. fon 'reeks hr attrarteri . And del of attention from wialerits of toed too. It is only during the last few years that these birds have begun to neat in our ...

... NATURE NOTES. The first occasion on which sandinartins were seen in the Penrith district, so far as I know, was on Tuesday, 4th April. These birds—four in number—were observed on the outskirts of the town by Mr. Joseph Irving, gardener, who assures me ...

... NATURE NOTES. ENGLISH CRAYFISH. Schemes for the restoration of nrayilsh to tribe. tariee of tho Thames, from whir* they have totally disappeared, owing to the crayfish disease, are,. the county Gentlemen understands,entertained by some of the proprietors ...

... NATURE NOTES. This year we have had what is known as a green thrilltollB. Some people prefer a white Yuletide as more in keeping web the AMOCO . It is junk as well, however, that we have no say in the matter and have to take the weather as it comes. The ...

... NATURE NOTES. On Thursday, 2nd November, I had a lung natural history ramble through a very attractive part of Lakeland. My intention was to visit once more the Watermilluck district, and see the country in its autumn dress, and also look out for feathered ...

... NATURE NOTES. A HARVEST OF EELS. Over four tons of eels have been dispatched from Thorpe, in the Feu, within the Met few days, to London. They were caught u a result of a trench being cut from an overfill mere to the sea in order to set free the dud water ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE GENTLE DEW. The dew that is annually deposited on as nip face of Eugland is equal to Sin. of rain. ItCHDROUB FLIGHT. An albatross has been known to follow a ship for two months without ever having been seen to alight. WHERE THE WEATHER ...

... NATURE NOTES. rA SPLENDID SNARE, In the reptile house at the Londmi Zoological Gardens there is now to be seen a reokrlcably large erantpity of the Australian -carpet-python. I Its length is estimated at Wt., which is said to exceed that of the largest ...