... NATURE NOTES. This week I have to record the departure rem Penrith of the swifts, or derdins, herb hare fur the past three months been tar wrleome guests. There are few aigrants that do more. good in the wort I. malt. I.a noise about it, than live le‘ilins ...

... NATURE: NOTES. This week an observer, Mr. Hodgson Harrison. writing to ate from the Barnard Castle district, guys: As I always read your notes with pleasure in the Herald every week, I thought it would be of interest to you to knon that as I was out ...

... NATURE NOTES. this week Dr. Sprott, Appleby, writes me as follows: I was much interested in reading your notes which appeared in last week's 'Herald,' quoting the communication from your Glenridding correspondent about locks of birth: observed feeding ...

... NATURE NOTES. According to promise I will give a few details anent those two harbingers of summer whose timely arrivals were recorded in the Herald on Saturday last. The cuckoo was both heard and seen near the railway bridge not far from Milestone House ...

... 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. It is always with tis•lings akin to regret that I begin to chronicle the departure of our summer birds. As a rule, the cuckoo is the first of our migrants to chant its farewell lay, but the exact time it leaves our shores is not easy to ...

... NATURE NOTES. This week I have received an interesting letter from Private G. Simm, who is at present in ramp near Mansfield. Notts. This soldier tells me that swallow s are still very numerous in that county, and there are a few pairs still nesting. ...

... NATURE NOTES. The honey season. except in the ease of those beekeepers who live within reach of the heather, is fast drawing to a close. The limes are now in full bloom, but this source will not last long, and the cold nights we are now having will, I ...

... NATURE NOTES. The month of May up to the present has been very favourable for the seeding. Si far as corn sowing is concerned the crops are all safe in • dry bed awaiting the grand transformation scene, when the'' sparkling blades of grain will glisten ...

... NATURE NOTES. This week I have received the following letter from one of our soldiers who is now serving his King and country in Flanders: Sir,—Always being a reader of your Nature Notes in the 'Herald,' which reaches me here every week, I thought a few ...

... NATURE NOTES. The last day of the fickle month of March and the home-coming of April are events *hat will live long in the memory of the inhabitants of Penrith. March had throughout been in a very surly temper, tut, taking the month on the whole, it was ...