... Nature Notes. ) . The chiff-chaffl has returned to gladden tho hearis of pature lovers througncut the coantry. Prodabiy no bird 1s 50 welcme on its re.urn 1o Engiand as this little inconspicuous migrant, with us limited scug of “cnifi-chaff, chifichafl ...

... Nature Notes. ~ Although the great ruzh of spring mi 3 can scarcely be waid to have mm the pumber ¢ meadow pipits end pied “f tails has been considerably mmfld v arrivals frcm farther south, W r these newcomors have come to us from across the Channel, ...

... Nature Notes. Tt is generally only waen the green peas are ready for the table thet the gardener makes the acquaintance of the hawiinch. This handsome bird is extremely shy and difficult 1o observe at close quarters, but he has an insatiablo appetite ...

... Nature Notes. Every day now secs the arrival of many more of our suwmmer migrant birds; they are erossing the Channel in hundress of ‘thou. sands and scattering themselves over every corner of the Britisa Isles. An early or late season cver here has little ...

... Nature Notes. The bright warm days of eariy spring show innumerable signs of ewakened Lfe throughout the countryside. The hazel cetkins have already shed most of their pollen, every breeze blowing clouds of the golden dust in cil directions, thus securing ...

... Nature Notes. We are still so ignorant of many points in the life history of the cuckoo, that the folowing observations may be worth recording. On the afternoon of May 10 T saw a male cuckoo perched on a solitary ash tree on the Malvern Hills, calling ...

... Nature Notes. The majority of summer migranis have already. teachad us, and since my last notes the mfl] addizion bas been the swiit. These are earlier taan usual, thus year (April 28 I first saw them), for May Day bes 1 passed bofore the first swifls ...

... Nature Notes. “In Junc he changes his tune”’ we ave tald, but this year. when everything is out of sea. soi, the cackoo has not waitcd for his traditiopal momth. Many birds ccemed 16 have lost the purity of their call before May was balf over, and one ...

... NATURE NOTES. A second crop of raspberries, of excellent quality, has been gathered at Pulham St. Mary. Ventnor ripe unforced strawberries have been gathered trarden another part of which the holly trees Ire bright with red berries. The early appearance ...

... contains many interesting monuments, including several Christian ohurehes of the 2nd or 3rd century. The current number of Nature Notes contains a reference to the gopher of Florida, a specimen of which was brongbt to this oountry last summer by Mr. W. M ...

... wild animals and plants which the progress of civilisation threatens with extinction. A. M Dixon (Birmiiignam), writes to Nature Notes: — A W lsh farmer and shepherd with whom I conversed last month propounded the theory that swallows and other migratv ...

... 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 ...