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... NATURE NOTES TN th# winter the tree* look different Irom those hot day* when they were one mass shady leaves. Now, if possible, they seem even prettier, and their real shapes and their delicate outlines can be distinguished against the pale sky. On the ...
... NATURE NOTES THE leaves are all unfolded now and that tinv bird the titmouse earns easy living when the little insects crawl out of the opened buds. Head up, h' down, they hang in the air; sometimes they swing from a slender twig to and fro just like ...
... Catterpillars and Music. Several catterpillars of the peacock and painted lady butterflieS . (says a correspondent of Nature Notes) were kept in boxes covered with gauze, on the under side of which they were resting when a, piano which was in the same ...
... Fowls. l Mr. G. T. Rope has tabulated some of the ‘language of the domestic fowl. There is, however, says a writer in ‘“Nature Notes,” 3 most important sound he has not noted, that is the note of warning or alarmt. It is madae by both cocks and hens when ...
... the fish. : RATS AND SILVER. Rats, like magpies and jackdaws, seem to have a partiality for eilver. A lady writing to ‘“ Nature Notes’’ says:—'‘ My sister was staying in a lonely house in the southwest of Ireland during August last. One evening the housemaid ...
... come every morning and helped him with his breakfast. THRUSH BUILDING ON GROUND. Every lover of birds (says a writer Nature Notes) can give numerous instances of the strange and out-of-the-way neatins places, but it is so rarely that a matter of fact ...
... A NATURE NOTE SOMETIMES when parent birds, accident or the cat, lose all some of their family in the spring, they build another nest and rear a second brood. Even so late as it is now some the graceful swallows have their house* lull ol children. Their ...
... A NATURE NOTE THERE a large dead fish or something floating about a hundred yards from the beach, and flocks of gulls of all kinds are having a quarrelsome meal. It is nice change for any the wild things to come upon dinner that they hare not had to chase ...