... venture to suggest that should read the wryneck fife,” alluding to the bird called the Wryneck (in Kalin, Tor quill a), the natural note of which may, for aught I know, shrill and sharp, like the sound of the instrument in question.” have been almost tempted ...

... geometric series, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048; each term which thus becomes a representative of the natural note do (except the first five terms, which vibrate too slowly to produce musical sounds) every term being the octave of the ...

... Gardeners' Chronicle states that among the singing birds in his garden and shrubbery is blackbird, which, in addition to his natural notes, repeatedly ends his song by crowing iike a bantam cock. Molloy, the veteran pedestrian, and his son, seventeen years age ...

... stillness reigns around. The ploughman's team, the thresher's flail, The woodman's axe, their clamours cease, And only nature's notes prevail, To humble bosoms echoing peace. The Sabbath bell! the Sabbath bell! How sweet on ears devout it falls; While ...

... Reports from different parts of the country state that kingfishers and goldfinches are becoming rarer. In a letter to Nature Notes, Mrs. Chase Parr tell how the birds and other creatures are still regularly fed in winter from Gilbert White's summer ...

... OF BEES. Among animals of the highest types of organisation, we have long been aoo ustomed (writes Mr. W. H. Harris in Nature Notes), to facts whioh seem distinctly to point to processes of reasoning. Elephants, horses, and dogs have furnished abundant ...

... and that the dispenser ought to have the services of a fully qualified assistant. Ma. W. H. HARRIS, Ealing, records in Nature Notes a remarkable instance of frugality in bees. The recent extremely rainy weather seems to have suggested to his bees ...

... BITS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. ?AIM IT JACED•WIL A curious thins, which may interest eoine of the readers of Nature Notes (writes O. C. Green in tits named) ha. peeed with regard to i pair of ekdaw which we bad here about 20 yeses et • had had them from the ...

... kingfisher was last seen sporting over the sparkling trout streams which abound in Carnarvonshire, writ-s Mr. A. T. Johnson in Nature Notes, and the dipper only remains to remind us of that glancing flight, those gorgeous plumes, and sprightly motions which ...

... in moving be walks or runs rather than Drawls. A naturalist, however. finds swan the natterjack interesting. Writing in Nature Notes Mr. J. A. Bilden says: Over 15 years ago. I and other members of our country local' Science Gossip Society' found the ...

... BENEVOLENCE. The following outioni in.taaoe of feline benevolent's, wr ten the Rev. Gi•b.rt White, of reemeclen Vicarage, in Nature Notes, ha, recently come under my notice. An old tabby oat, aged aboni 14 years, has for the last are Tears taken the chickens ...

... directed to pay complainant 135., the balance due to her. AN AFFECTIONATE ROBIN. Mr. Peter Lewis, of lereford, sends to Nature Notes a marvellous, yet apparently well-authenticated anecdote of a robin who forms a decided attachment to two maiden ladies ...