... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. , BETTER TIIIII3 FOR THE BIRDS. So often have we had cause to lament the disappearance of some bird or another from places or districts where it had formerly been not uncommon that many of us have almost come to look upon such things ...

... NATURE NOTES. it anyone imagines that the only geld naturalist Who can do good work by observing and recording ks he who has ample leisure and can afford to avail himself of the latest works of reference and most Sp-to-date handbooks, that person should ...

... NATURE NOTES A N &TORS GLIM. Tit WATS or IrVLDIIO.-90111e of the se-eieted waders, that is, those birds that wade for their food as well as swim, move with the most extraordinary rapidity under the water when on the hunt for food in its varied forms, ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. AN ISLAND Sexcretite. Ths suggestion made by Sir Harry Johnston that the Island of Achill should be reserved as a kind of sanctuary for such of oar wild animals as are. from one cause or another, becoming rare, and' likely to become ...

... NATURE NOTES. For the first time we have a credible record of the occurrence of the noctule bat in Scotland. Mr. I. G. Millais states that during many years spent in working at our northern fauna he never heard of an example of any large species of bat ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. 1 Bums or a RaaWAY Jammu. The interior of a railway carriage dasking througn the country at a pace of many miles an hour is hardly an ideal place from which to observe bird life, yet if the passenger make the most of his chances ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. airman. berring the winter a good many bitterns bliss I Visited En„eiand, and It Is gratifying to know that ' in some instances the sportsmen who have seen them have refrained from shooting them. The bittern is one of those birds ...

... 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 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 ...

... 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. AMMO pnetieally exterminated in its wild bate, the lemealcan bison IA nothing like so near eleanniete extieetion as some people imagine larked, it has just been made clear that-daring the lAA four yews there has been an increase in the Umber ...