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... NATURE NOTES. A What is probably the first white leopard recorded form Africa was shown at the German Sporting Exhibition, recently held ia Berlin. It was shown by Mr. Otto Bock, and is known to been killed Dear Dares•Salsain. The ground-colour is sa:d ...
... NATURE NOTES. • Viorremogrurrs. Ornithologists asPert that ally sparrows, and robins. .Tat ventriloquial powere. Birds, when surprised singing. will be silent for a moment, awl then give forth a faint song that te come from a distance, though the ringer ...
... NATURE NOTES. Ten-Fun. The most terrible scourge of Africa at the present looniest is the sleeping sickness, which is conveyed to man by the tie-tee and let up to quite a recent date man was considered immune from the attacks of this poisonous pest. The ...
... NATURE NOTES. A LAU= MUST. animal possessing the largest heart is The Greenland whale. Its heart is one yard In diameter. and more than three yard@ round the largest part. STIDtI. _ By some unexplained means, the popular name, tarantula. has come into ...
... NATURE NOTES. . THE WORLD OF WORK. Hew • NUM LABOUR KNIGHT'S NEW POST. There is no other bird which quite Sir William Cromman, the Cardiff the same risk and eysdes them in the same °labour knight. has been appointed superway as the pigoon. Given a fair ...
... NATURE NOTES. The l>Uck-he*d*tl gull* *everal handled* in iiomi«r *rri»*d «t their pue* shore Corwen, Wednes lsy, sod mach interest wss taken in the dock, when it slighted Inrg* field near Careen station to feed. The a> rirsl of the birds, few days earlier ...
... NATURE NOTES. 'Przwerro. Ilss dogs of Arctic regions sr* neptiblis to a form of madness which has been graphically described by Peary. Locally known as piblockto, it Is characterised by U 25 howling and snapping of the victims. who rrfuse all nourishment ...
... NATURE NOTES. A Fla' wrrx Lae.. Dr. John Baseman, who is on an exploriag expedition for Pittsburg Carnegie Institute. reports that be has discovered near Menem,. Brasil, a fish with rudimentary legs.. the long-looked-for miming link between the salamander ...
... Nature Notes. Most of the birds are now actively building. many have built already, and the earlier ones such as blackbird, thrush, robin, rook, and owl have hatched their young and are devoting all their energies to feeding them. ...
... Nature Notes. Despite the bitter and persistent northerly winds of late, spring still continues to draw back the curtain and reveal her gay treasures with increasing lavishness and gaiety. In the orchard, the early pear blossom begins to scatter. The ...
... Nature Notes. Whether change of moon exercises any influence on the weather, what kind of influence, when, and how, are questions upon which many divers opinions are held even by the older inhabitants of the land. Those who hold positive views on the ...
... Nature Notes. With the genial warmth of the last few days nature is re-assured, and bounds forth to revel in the presence of its deity, the sun. ...