... NATURE NOTES. Writing from Winton, Pencaitland, • COM. spondent sends to the Beeman an interesting account of a very specimen of the great grey shrike or butcher bird (Lanium excubiter). which be saw the other day. Aa as J. H. could out, it was • male ...

... NATURE NOTES. ADMIT Routs. Some interesting information about melee is given by • writer in the Field, who quotes the experiences of an old mole-catcher. Regarding the food of moles, be states they live upon worms, beetles, and the blanched roots of gram ...

... NATURE NOTES. SCARCITY OW WARPS. Everybody has been remarking this summe ow the scarcity of wasps, and tisane has heel a general sense of relief in the country ths this is the case, although few people Appes to have considered the cause of this scarcit ...

... NATURE NOTES. SLACK • MITL Whilst most fruit - growers affected ham been despairing over the ravages of this pest, to the extent of making the Board of Agriculture for an Act of Parliament against it, and vetting Board to afford help by telling all that ...

... NATURE NOTES. 0•11=•••• WIWI'S! AT LAP!. The countrywide at last wears a wintry aspect. The Walesa trees stand cold and reeking wet beside the road. The hedgerows drip moisture. Every grass blade in the pietures is heavily beaded with congealed vapour ...

... NATURE NOTES. A Cuarove - The Dryad's is the same of the twos shoot • .orreepeedest inquires: It wows as the illastrettkom *awe, is • Ispsld.d fashioa, skimps, set ef tise trunk of • tree, sometimes at • frost the ground. The smite tow one es u way. twee ...

... NATURE NOTES. or SPRING Pumas,. - - - The page of wild birds is just now at its best, and the robin is no exception to the ntle. says a writer in Cage Birds. His ruddy breast is brighter than ever; the touch of grey at the neck partaking more of the silvery ...

... NATURE NOTES. Ths COMING OF No date in a calendar ow end winter or begin it. This is the -mine with all the seasons in Ireland. There is no shorting an exact period to each beforehand or tying it down to a week or a day, writes Mr. George A. B. Dewar ...

... NATURE NOTES. TRAVELLING WITH YOUR DOG. I noticed the other evening. at the Paris Clare du Nord, write'. Mr. F. 0. Adel°, • label indicating that a carriage reserved tot thane who acre arelimin.nied hy doge. admirable idea might well be adopted on our ...

... NATURE NOTES. Scent of hay is the air. The long days are their longest, and whan they gone it is not night; the kestrel can see the moving moose in the grace, long after the time when the owl has begun to hint. The crow of the partridge in the green corn ...

... NATURE NOTES. Doss Thvu Rana Ow Snot is a problem for arborkidturists to A writer in the lisoldirtier states that he was talking to.. aged park-beeper, who said you always meat es the badges aed trees shoring twice as mash (rem attar • thunderstorm. The ...

... NATURE NOTES. WIATIM POSTI3rII. Forecasting the weather is always a matter et uncertainty in this country at least. Nevertlieisis • observation of the habits of animals and &fortis • good indication of the weather likely to be experieneed. If It is going ...