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... NATURE NOTES. So far as vegetation is concerned -the season is on the wane. Fewer plants will come into flower each week, though wild flowers will be plentiful and in great variety for many weeks to come. Honeysuckle has flowered freely this year, covering ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. ON &nuts or Tam Bmoei. lfaturalista generally, I believe, will be glad to learn from Mr. H. G. Bryden's interesting article in Learnen's Magersisse that in some parts of the Bantry badgers are still fairly plentiful. The majority ...

... Nature Notes NLY a few davs ago a man said to me: “I see that the rooks are gathering at their usual nesting place. Surel) they cannot be thinking o! setting-up house before the end o the year? Of course, the answer was “No although the rook is one of ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. Tea WERATILAR. Some 250 years ego that learned doctor, Sir Ti as lirowne. among the birth Ireciewlitoug Norfolk Atria frogloditica or Chock, a small bird mixed of black and white and breeding in cony borrougria, whereof the warrens ...

... NATURE NOTES. SHELTER PLANTATIONS. Before the Newcastle Farmers' Club, on Saturday, Mr. A. C. Forbes read a paper on Shelter Plantations for Cattle. The only alternative to shelter belts, he said was buildings, and these were too expensive. His idea ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. TUB ttooz—Tine names's 1 1 211WD oz Foal, One of the chief British authorities on wild birds says: The amount of good done by the rooks in the destruction 8f wire-worms and other noxious grubs is incalculable, and the bird, liko ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. Arrests MIGRANTS. Bp the time this week's notes are in the readers' hands it will not be too aoon for field naturalists to be on the look-out for early autumn migrants, though it will be some weeks before our winter bird visitors ...

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... NATURE NOTES. At the Summer Islands, Ullapool. Ross-shire, a large seal measuring 6ft. gin. has been shot by an Inland Revenue officer. That Seotch exciseman belongs to the breed who, when happy, want to go out and slay something. AN ARTFUL SNAKE. Seeing ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES.. Tna Prue-roar= 60031. In writing last week about the erild-life of the North-Norfolk coast. I was unable, thrbugh latk of space, to refer to one especially interestifig feature of the district's avi-fauna--I mean the presence there ...

... Nature Notes PART from robin or two xx and the usual collection of sparrows, there have been very few interesting birds in and around the garden during the past few weeks. One afternoon last week, however, something unusuai DID appear. Perched on bush ...